[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8942 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8942

To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to ensure that certain 
employees, providers, and volunteers associated with the Indian Health 
Service receive educational training in the history and culture of the 
         Tribes served by such persons, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2024

 Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to ensure that certain 
employees, providers, and volunteers associated with the Indian Health 
Service receive educational training in the history and culture of the 
         Tribes served by such persons, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Improving Tribal Cultural Training 
for Providers Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. TRIBAL CULTURE AND HISTORY.

    Section 113 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1616f) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``a program'' and inserting ``an 
                annual mandatory training program''; and
                    (B) by striking ``appropriate employees of the 
                Service'' and inserting ``employees of the Service, 
                locum tenens medical providers, health care volunteers, 
                and other contracted employees who work at Service 
                hospitals or other Service units and whose employment 
                requires regular direct patient access''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Requirement To Complete Training Program.--Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, beginning on the date of enactment of the 
Improving Tribal Cultural Training for Providers Act of 2024, each 
employee or provider described in subsection (a) who enters into a 
contract with the Service shall, as a condition of employment, annually 
participate in and complete the program established under subsection 
(a).''.
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