legislation: 95-hr-9944
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| 95-hr-9944 | 95 | hr | 9944 | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide financial assistance to medical facilities for treatment of certain aliens. | Immigration | 1977-11-03 | 1977-11-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Pepper, Claude [D-FL-14] | FL | D | P000218 | 0 | Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow medical facilities to be reimbursed by the Federal Government for emergency medical treatment given aliens unlawfully in the United States if such aliens are unable to pay the cost of such treatment or can pay only a part of the cost and the aliens or medical facilities which provided such treatment are not eligible under any public assistance program for payment or reimbursement of such cost. Requires that an application for reimbursement be submitted to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sets forth criteria for determining whether such an application shall be approved. | 2024-08-01T20:03:51Z |