Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care
§ 1611. Congressional statement of purpose
Statutory text
The purpose of this subchapter is to increase the number of Indians entering the health professions and to assure an adequate supply of health professionals to the Service, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations involved in the provision of health care to Indian people.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Indian Health Care Improvement Act
Pub. L. 94–437 title I § 101 · 90 Stat. 1400
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1611
Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 101, Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1402
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 101, Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1402Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 101. purpose The purpose of this title is to augment the inadequate number of health professionals serving Indians and remove the multiple barriers to the entrance of health professionals into the Service and private practice among Indians.Indian Health Amendments of 1992
Pub. L. 102–573 title I § 101 · 106 Stat. 4526
Amended · 25 U.S.C. § 1611
Pub. L. 102–573 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The purpose of this subchapter is to augment the inadequate number of health professionals serving Indians and remove the multiple barriers to the entrance of health professionals into the Service and private practice among Indians.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 102–573 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The purpose of this subchapter is to augment the inadequate number of health professionals serving Indians and remove the multiple barriers to the entrance of health professionals into the Service and private practice among Indians.”Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 101. PURPOSE. Section 101 of the Act (25 U.S.C. 1611) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 101. The purpose of this title is to increase the number of Indians entering the health professions and to assure an adequate supply of health professionals to the Service, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations involved in the provision of health care to Indian people.”.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1992—Pub. L. 102–573 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The purpose of this subchapter is to augment the inadequate number of health professionals serving Indians and remove the multiple barriers to the entrance of health professionals into the Service and private practice among Indians.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Advisory Panel and Report on Recruitment and Retention
Pub. L. 100–713, title I, § 110, , 102 Stat. 4800, directed Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an advisory panel composed of 10 physicians or other health professionals who are employees of, or assigned to, the Indian Health Service, 3 representatives of tribal health boards, and 1 representative of an urban health care organization, such advisory panel to conduct an investigation of (1) administrative policies and regulatory procedures which impede recruitment or retention of physicians and other health professionals by Indian Health Service, and (2) regulatory changes necessary to establish pay grades for health professionals employed by, or assigned to, the Service that correspond to the pay grades established for positions provided under 38 U.S.C. 4103 and 4104 and costs associated with establishing such pay grades, and, no later than the date that is 18 months after , to submit to Congress a report on the investigation, together with any recommendations for administrative or legislative changes in existing law, practices, or procedures.
Credits
1976–1992 · 2 acts
- 1976Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 101, , 90 Stat. 1402
- 1992Pub. L. 102–573, title I, § 101, , 106 Stat. 4530.
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(Pub. L. 94–437, title I, § 101, , 90 Stat. 1402; Pub. L. 102–573, title I, § 101, , 106 Stat. 4530.)