Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 22 — Indian Hospitals and Health Facilities
§ 2001. Hospitals and health facilities transferred to Public Health Service; restriction on closing hospitals
Statutory text
All functions, responsibilities, authorities, and duties of the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relating to the maintenance and operation of hospital and health facilities for Indians, and the conservation of the health of Indians, are transferred to, and shall be administered by, the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Health and Human Services: Provided, That hospitals now in operation for a specific tribe or tribes of Indians shall not be closed prior to , without the consent of the governing body of the tribe or its organized council.
In carrying out his functions, responsibilities, authorities, and duties under this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized, with the consent of the Indian people served, to contract with private or other non-Federal health agencies or organizations for the provision of health services to such people on a fee-for-service basis or on a prepayment or other similar basis.
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.
Pub. L. 83–658 § 1 · 68 Stat. 793
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2001
Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 1, 68 Stat. 674
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 1, 68 Stat. 674Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
Pub. L. 93–222 § 6(a) · 87 Stat. 914
Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 2001
Pub. L. 93–222 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
Added · 42 U.S.C. § 2001
Pub. L. 93–222 added subsec. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 93–222 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) The first section of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2001), is amended by inserting “(a)” after “That” and by adding at 68 Stat. 674. the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) In carrying out his functions, responsibilities, authorities, and duties under tins Act, the Secretary is authorized, with the consent of the Indian people, served, to contract with private or other non-Federal health agencies or organizations for the provision of health services to such people on a fee-for-service basis or on a prepayment or other similar basis.”.
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1973—Pub. L. 93–222 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Act Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 6, 68 Stat. 675, as amended by Pub. L. 86–121, § 2, , 73 Stat. 268, provided that: “Sections 1 to 5, inclusive, of this Act [enacting this subchapter and repealing sections 444 to 449 of Title 25, Indians] shall take effect .”
Short Title
This subchapter is popuarly known as the “Transfer Act”.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Office of Surgeon General abolished by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. , 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and functions thereof transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education. Office of Surgeon General reestablished within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, see Notice of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, , 52 F.R. 11754.
Credits
1954–1979 · 3 acts
- 1954Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 1, 68 Stat. 674
- 1973Pub. L. 93–222, § 6(a), , 87 Stat. 935
- 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
Show as published
(Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 1, 68 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 93–222, § 6(a), , 87 Stat. 935; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)