104 STAT. 1952
PUBLIC LAW 101-512—NOV. 5, 1990
care at all tribally administered or Indian Health Service facilities,
if such care can be extended without impairing the ability of the
facility to fulfill its responsibility to provide health care to Indians
served by such facilities and subject to such reasonable charges as
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prescribe, the
proceeds of which, together with funds recovered under the Federal
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651-53), shall be deposited in
the fund established by sections 401 and 402 of the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act or in the case of tribally administered
facilities, shall be retained by the tribal organization without fiscal
year limitation: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the
Indian Health Service in this Act, except those used for administrative and program direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel and transportation:
25 USC 1681. Provided further. That with the exception of Indian Health Service
units which currently have a billing policy, the Indian Health
Service shall not initiate any further action to bill Indians in order
to collect from third-party payers nor to charge those Indians who
may have the economic means to pay unless and until such time as
Congress has agreed upon a specific policy to do so and has directed
the Indian Health Service to implement such a policy: Provided
further. That personnel ceilings may not be imposed on the Indian
Health Service nor may any action be taken to reduce the full-time
equivalent level of the Indian Health Service by the elimination of
temporary employees by reduction in force, hiring freeze or any
other means without the review and approval of the Committees on
Appropriations: Provided further. That none of the funds made
available to the Indian Health Service in this Act shall be used to
implement the final rule published in the Federal Register on
September 16, 1987, by the Department of Health and Human
Services, relating to eligibility for the health care services of the
Indian Health Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs associated with
the proposed final rule, and such request has been included in an
appropriations Act and enacted into law: Provided further. That
funds made available in this Act are to be apportioned to the Indian
Health Service as appropriated in this Act, and accounted for in the
appropriation structure set forth in this Act.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
INDIAN EDUCATION
For necessary expenses to carry out, to the extent not otherwise
provided, the Indian Education Act of 1988, $75,762,000, of which
$56,556,000 shall be for subpart 1 and $16,304,000 shall be for
subparts 2 and 3: Provided, That $1,578,000 available pursuant to
section 5323 of the Act shall remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1992.
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