IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act
This bill allows tribes to receive contract support costs for activities that would otherwise be carried out by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Health and Human Services for direct operation of a program, but for which the costs are not fully covered by the amount of funds required by the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to 
 secure existing Tribal contract support cost reimbursements, 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 ``IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION 
              ASSISTANCE ACT.

    Section 106(a) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5325(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``but which'' and inserting 
                ``including activities that'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``respective'';
                            (ii) by striking ``his'' and inserting 
                        ``the Secretary's''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``or'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; or''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) would otherwise be carried out by the 
                Secretary in support of the Secretary's direct 
                operation of the program, but for which the costs are 
                not fully covered by the amount of funds required under 
                paragraph (1).''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(A), by inserting ``amounts'' after 
        ``duplicate any funding''.
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IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act
To amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to secure existing Tribal contract support cost reimbursements, and for other purposes.
IHS Contract Support Cost Amendment Act
Rep. Cole, Tom