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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care

§ 1680r. Tribal health program option for cost sharing

Statutory text

(a)

In general

Nothing in this chapter limits the ability of a tribal health program operating any health program, service, function, activity, or facility funded, in whole or part, by the Service through, or provided for in, a compact with the Service pursuant to title V of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 458aaa et seq.) 1 to charge an Indian for services provided by the tribal health program.

(b)

Service

Nothing in this chapter authorizes the Service—

(1)

to charge an Indian for services; or

(2)

to require any tribal health program to charge an Indian for services.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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.

  1. Indian Health Care Improvement Act

    Pub. L. 94–437 title VIII § 828 · 90 Stat. 1400

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1680r

    (Pub. L. 94–437, title VIII, § 828, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 94–437, title VIII, § 828, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 94–437, , 90 Stat. 1400, known as the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of this title and Tables.

The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 93–638, , 88 Stat. 2203. Title V of the Act was classified principally to part E (§ 458aaa et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 14 of this title prior to editorial reclassification as subchapter V (§ 5381 et seq.) of chapter 46 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section 828 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 197 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.

Credits

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VIII, § 828, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), , 124 Stat. 935.)

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