[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3750 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3750

To provide for the correct treatment of territories and possessions in 
 the health care service supports under the Communications Act of 1934.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2004

   Ms. Bordallo (for herself, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. 
  Acevedo-Vila, and Mrs. Christensen) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the correct treatment of territories and possessions in 
 the health care service supports under the Communications Act of 1934.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pacific Insular Areas Rural 
Telemedicine Act''.

SEC. 2. FCC REGULATIONS REQUIRED.

    Section 254(h)(1)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
254(h)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``For the purposes of this subparagraph for American Samoa, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, the 
Commission shall by regulation (i) designate Honolulu, Hawaii, as the 
urban area that shall be treated as if such urban area were in the same 
State as the rural areas of Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, respectively; (ii) specify that the 
maximum allowable distance shall be the distance between the capital 
cities of these Pacific insular areas and Hawaii; and (iii) specify 
that the urban rate shall be based on the urban rate for Hawaii.''.
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