Summary: Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2008 - Reauthorizes Indian Health Service (IHS) programs. Title I: Amendments to Indian Laws - (Sec. 101) Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ( IHCIA) to declare a national Indian health policy to: (1) raise the health status of Indians and Urban Indians by 2010 to at least the levels set forth in the goals contained within the Healthy People 2010 or successor objectives; (2) ensure maximum Indian participation in the direction of health care services to make the persons administering such services and the services themselves more responsive to the needs and desires of Indian communities; and (3) ensure that the United States and Indian Tribes work together to ensure quality health care for all tribal members.Authorizes approval of up to a two-year extension (or the part-time equivalent) of a health profession preparatory pregraduate education scholarship.Revises Indian Health Scholarship requirements. Gives the Director of IHS the responsibility of administration of such scholarship program. Requires scholarship recipients to work full-time for a time frame equal to one year for each school year, or two years, whichever is greater, in specified programs, including working in a practice that addresses the health care needs of Indians or teaching in a tribal college or university nursing (or related health profession) program, if the health service provided to Indians would not decrease.Revises American Indians Into Psychology Program requirements to establish a maximum grant amount of $300,000 to each of nine (currently three) colleges and universities. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2017.Revises requirements for matching grants to tribes for health professional scholarship programs. Allows 20% of funds for the scholarship costs to be from any source instead of only non-federal sources. Requires a scholarship recipient to agree not to discriminate in providing health care against individuals on the basis of payment under title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA).Revises IHS extern program requirements. Extends the extern program to a Tribal Health Program (THP) or an Urban Indian Organization (UIO) (on a discretionary basis) or other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies (as available). Allows a high school extern program.Revises requirements for programs for continuing education allowances. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to provide programs or allowances to: (1) transition into an Indian Health Program (IHP), including licensing, board or certification examination, and technical assistance in fulfilling service obligations, and (2) enable health professionals employed in an IHP to take leave of their duty stations for a period each year for professional consultation and refresher training and, in the case of nurses, for additional clinical sexual assault nurse examiner experience to maintain competency or certification. Repeals the set-aside for postdoctoral training. Allows extension of continuing education allowances to health professionals employed in an IHP or a UIO.Revises community health representative program requirements. Renames health paraprofessionals as "community health representatives."Revises Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program requirements. Requires the Secretary to notify a loan repayment applicant of approval or disapproval within 21 days after receipt of the application. Cancels the service or payment of damages obligation of an individual at death.Revises Scholarship and Loan Repayment Recovery Fund requirements. Includes among Fund sources any collections from contract breaches for the scholarships or loan repayment programs and interest. Allows THPs to use payments received from the Fund to provide scholarships.Revises requirements for recruitment activities to allow travel reimbursement of health professionals seeking positions with IHPs or UIOs. Revises Indian recruitment and retention program and advanced training and research requirements, specifying the involvement of health professionals who have worked in an IHP or UIO.Renames the nursing grant program as the "Quentin N. Burdick American Indians into Nursing Program." Eliminates the program of grants to establish nursing school clinics.Makes tribal cultural orientation and history education of IHS employees mandatory. Requires such education to describe the use and place of traditional health care practices of the Indian Tribes in the IHS area.Revises requirements for the Indians Into Medicine (INMED) Program.Revises community college health training program requirements to require grant-receiving community colleges to: (1) have a relationship with a hospital rather than mere access; and (2) agree to provide preference for Indian applicants. Establishes a funding priority for tribal colleges and universities in Service Areas where they exist.Repeals the authority for additional incentives for health professionals.Extends retention bonuses to any health professional (not just doctors and nurses) employed by an IHP or UIO. Permits the Secretary to provide such bonuses to professionals who have completed: (1) two (currently, three) years of employment with an IHP or UIO; or (2) any service obligations incurred as a requirement of any federal scholarship or loan repayment program. Repeals the requirement that the retention bonus be paid at the beginning of the term of service.Limits the nursing residency training program to Indians working in an IHP or UIO. Allows education leading to any advanced degree or certification in nursing or public health (currently, a Master's degree). Allows obligated service in a UIO.Revises community health aide program requirements. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Community Health Aide Program, to ensure that pulpal therapy or extraction of adult teeth can be performed by a dental health aide therapist only after consultation with a licensed dentist who determines that the procedure is a medical emergency that cannot be resolved with palliative treatment. Prohibits such therapists from performing all other oral or jaw surgeries. Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, to establish a neutral panel to study the dental health aide therapist services under such program.Directs the Secretary to act through IHS to provide training for Indians in the administration and planning of THPs.Authorizes the Secretary, acting through IHS, to fund health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs.Prohibits the Secretary from removing a National Health Service Corps member from an IHP or a UIO. Revises requirements for substance abuse counselor educational curricula demonstration programs. Extends the initial grant period from one year to three years and the renewal periods from one year to two years.Converts mental health to behavioral health training and community education programs, making Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations participants.Repeals the University of South Dakota pilot program.Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 for Indian health, human resources, and development.Revises Indian Health Care Improvement Fund requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to expend funds either directly or under the authority of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA). Adds telehealth and telemedicine to uses of such funds, as well as elimination of inequities in funding for both direct care and contract health service programs.Revises Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund (CHEF) requirements. Prohibits allocation, apportionment, or delegation of CHEF funds on an Area Office, Service Unit, or other similar basis. Requires the Secretary to use a specified negotiated rulemaking process for the promulgation of CHEF regulations.Revises requirements for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Services.Revises diabetes prevention, treatment, and control requirements. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a cost-effective approach to ensure ongoing monitoring of disease indicators; and (2) continue to maintain each model diabetes project already in existence on the enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a position of diabetes control officer in each Area Office. Converts the shared services for long-term care demonstration project into a permanent program. Repeals certain contract eligibility requirements. Directs the Secretary to encourage the use of existing underused facilities or allow the use of swing beds for long-term or similar care.Revises health services research requirements. Replaces the current set-aside of $200,000 for research with general authority to fund research for IHPs, instead of only IHS. Requires the Secretary to coordinate resources and activities to address relevant IHP research needs. Authorizes the use of research funding for both clinical and nonclinical research. Requires the Secretary to evaluate the impact of such research and to disseminate to THPs information regarding such research.Revises requirements on coverage of screening mammography. Eliminates the minimum age requirement of 35 for Indian women. Opens screening mammography to Indian women at a frequency appropriate to such women under accepted and appropriate national standards. Requires the Secretary to provide for other cancer screening that receives an A or B rating as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Requires the Secretary to ensure that the screening provided complies with the Task Force's recommendations.Revises patient travel cost requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds for appropriate and necessary qualified escorts and transportation by private vehicle (where no other means of transportation is available), specially equipped vehicle, ambulance, or by such other available means when air or motor vehicle transportation is not available.Revises epidemiology center requirements. Requires the Secretary to establish an epidemiology center in each service area. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Indian Organizations, and eligible intertribal consortia to conduct epidemiological studies of Indian communities. Requires: (1) the Secretary to grant epidemiology centers operated by a grantee access to use of the data, data sets, monitoring systems, delivery systems, and other protected health information in the Secretary's possession; and (2) such use of data to be for research and for preventing and controlling disease, injury, or disability for purposes of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Repeals requirements that the Secretary: (1) develop sets of data and formats for the uniform collecting and reporting of information; and (2) establish a system for monitoring progress toward health objectives. Revises requirements for comprehensive school health education programs and the Indian Youth Program. Includes urban Indian youth as beneficiaries of the latter.Extends a specified disease prevention, control, and elimination program from tuberculosis to other communicable and infectious diseases.Makes permanent a demonstration project for home- and community-based care, including hospice care, assisted living services, and long-term care services. Revises requirements for the program. Repeals the prohibition against the use of funds for cash payments, room and board, construction, and nursing facility services.Eliminates the Office of Indian Women's Health Care. Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and UIOs, to monitor and improve the quality of health care for Indian women of all ages through the planning and delivery of IHS programs.Revises requirements for the nuclear resource development health hazards study and health plan development program. Extends such program to ongoing monitoring of environmental health hazards generally, including petroleum contamination and contamination of water sources and of the food chain, as well as nuclear resource development.Extends through FY2016 the designation of Arizona as a contract health service delivery area.Designates North Dakota and South Dakota as contract health service delivery areas.Converts the current California contract health services demonstration program into a permanent program. Allows the excluded counties to become part of the contract service area if funding is specifically provided by IHS for contract health services in those counties.Repeals a specified limitation on the provision of funds for health care programs and facilities operated by Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations.Exempts from state licensing requirements any health care professionals employed by a THP to perform services described in its contract or compact under the ISDEAA.Requires IHS to pay a valid claim (currently, a completed claim) within 30 days after completion of the claim. Denies recourse by a service provider against a patient for contract health care services if the claim has been deemed accepted by IHS.Authorizes the Secretary to establish within IHS an Office of Indian Men's Health to coordinate and promote the health status of Indian men.Extends the authorization of appropriations for health services to Indians through FY2017.Revises requirements regarding health facilities.Requires any Indian health facility to meet the construction standards of any accrediting body (not only those of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations) recognized by the Secretary for programs under title XVIII (Medicare), title XIX (Medicaid), and title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act.Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, to maintain a health care facility priority system, which shall: (1) be developed in consultation with Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations; (2) give Indian Tribes' needs the highest priority; and (3) provide an opportunity for the nomination of planning, design, and construction projects by IHS, Indian Tribes, and Tribal Organizations for consideration under the priority system at least once every three years. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report that describes the comprehensive, national, ranked list of all health care facilities needs for IHS, Indian Tribes, and Tribal Organizations developed by them for the Facilities Needs Assessment Workgroup and the Facilities Appropriation Advisory Board. Requires the Secretary to cooperate with Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations, and confer with UIOs, in developing innovative approaches to address the unmet need for construction of health facilities, that may include the establishment of an area distribution fund in which a portion of health facility construction funding could be devoted to all Service Areas. Revises requirements on safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities, now called sanitation facilities. Requires the Secretary to provide priority funding for emergency repairs and operation and maintenance for sanitation facilities to avoid imminent health threats (currently, hazards) or to protect the investment in the health benefits gained through sanitation facilities. Prohibits the use of IHS funding for new homes constructed using Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds. Authorizes the Secretary to accept funds from any source for placement into contracts or compacts under the ISDEAA for sanitation facilities and services.Authorizes the Secretary to use sanitation facilities appropriations to: (1) fund tribal loans for new sanitation facility projects; or (2) meet matching or cost participation requirements under other federal and nonfederal programs for such new projects. Directs the Secretary to establish standards applicable to the planning, design, and construction of sanitation facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to accept payment for goods and services furnished by IHS from public authorities, nonprofit organizations or agencies, or Indian Tribes. Declares that an Indian tribe has primary responsibility for establishing and collecting user fees. Authorizes the Secretary to assist, on a short-term basis, an Indian Tribe, Tribal Organization, or Indian community when a tribally operated sanitation facility is threatened with imminent failure.Revises requirements for determining sanitation deficiency levels.Revises pay rate and specified wage requirements with respect to preference for Indians and Indian firms in the construction of tribally related health and sanitation facilities.Revises requirements for expenditure of non-IHS funds for renovation to include major expansion as an authorized use. Requires the Indian Tribe or Tribal Organization to provide to the Secretary certain information regarding staffing, equipment, and other costs associated with the expansion. Requires the methodology for determining priorities to be developed and updated through regulations.Revises requirements for the grant program for the construction, expansion, and modernization of small ambulatory care facilities.Revises requirements for alternative Indian health care delivery demonstration project requirements by: (1) permitting the use of IHS funds to match other funds; and (2) requiring the Secretary to give priority to demonstration projects located in specified Service Units. Authorizes federal agencies in addition to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to transfer to IHS and the Secretary to accept land and improvements for the provision of health care services.Revises requirements for leases, contracts, and other agreements between the Secretary and Indian Tribes to add Tribal Organizations as eligible lessors.Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of establishing a loan fund to provide to Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations direct loans or guarantees for loans for the construction of health care facilities.Authorizes a THP to lease permanent structures for the purpose of providing health care services without obtaining advance approval in appropriations Acts.Renames certain joint venture demonstration projects as "the Indian Health Service/Tribal Facilities Joint Venture Program." Makes Tribal Organizations eligible for participation. Requires the Secretary to develop project need criteria through the negotiated rulemaking process. Requires negotiation for continued operation of a facility at the end of the initial 10-year no-cost lease period. Authorizes recovery in a proportional amount from the United States if IHS ceases to use the facility within the 10-year lease period. Includes staff quarters in the definition of health facility for purposes of such Program requirements.Revises requirements concerning priority in the location of IHS facilities on Indian lands. Grants top priority to Indian land owned by one or more Indian Tribes. Includes among such lands: (1) all lands in Alaska owned by any Alaska Native village or any village or regional corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; or (2) any land allotted to any Alaska Native.Requires the Secretary to identify in the report to Congress accompanying the President's budget the backlog of maintenance and repair work required at both IHS and tribal health care facilities.Authorizes a THP which operates a hospital or other health facility and associated, federally owned quarters pursuant to a contract or compact under the ISDEAA to: (1) establish the rental rates charged to the occupants of such quarters; and (2) collect rents directly from federal employees who occupy such quarters.Exempts Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations from the requirements of the Buy American Act.Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) accept from any source, including federal and state agencies, funds available for the construction of health care facilities for Indians and place such funds into a contract or compact under the ISDEAA; and (2) enter into interagency agreements for the planning, design, and construction of health care facilities.Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 for Indian health facilities.Revises requirements for access to health services. Prohibits from consideration in determining appropriations for health care and services to Indians any Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP payments (reimbursements) received by an IHP or a UIO. Requires the Secretary to ensure that each Service Unit of IHS receives 100% (currently, at least 80%) of the amount to which the facilities are entitled. Requires: (1) amounts to first be used to make improvements in IHS's programs that may be necessary to achieve or maintain compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the SSA; and (2) amounts so received that are in excess of the amount necessary to achieve or maintain such conditions and requirements to be used for reducing the health resource deficiencies.Revises requirements for the direct billing program. Revises requirements for grants to and contracts with IHS, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and UIOs to assist individual Indians to enroll for Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP benefits.Revises requirements for reimbursement from certain third parties of costs of health services. Grants the United States, an Indian Tribe, or Tribal Organization, including a UIO, the right to seek recovery from third parties. Requires all reasonable efforts to provide notice to the individual to whom health services were provided, either before or during the pendency of an action. Gives specified Indian Tribes or Tribal Organizations the right to recover from the tortfeasor the reasonable value of the health services furnished, paid for, or to be paid for in accordance with the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act to the same extent and under the same circumstances as the United States may recover under that Act. Provides that such rights are independent of the rights of the injured or diseased person served by the Indian Tribe or Tribal Organization. Denies the United States the right of recovery against a tribal self-insured plan without written authorization from the tribe. Prohibits denial of a claim for benefits based on the format in which the claim is submitted, if the format complies with certain requirements. Authorizes Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and UIOs to use certain funds to purchase health care coverage.Revises requirements with respect to sharing arrangements with federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to enter agreements for sharing of medical facilities with the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DOD), requiring VA or DOD reimbursement where services are provided through IHS, an Indian Tribe, or a Tribal Organization to beneficiaries eligible for services from either Department.Requires the Secretary to provide for veteran-related expenses incurred by eligible Indian veterans and to establish guidelines about the method of payments to the Secretary of Veteran Affairs.Makes IHPs and health care programs operated by UIOs the payor of last resort for services provided to eligible persons.Requires nondiscrimination with regard to service provider qualifications for reimbursement of services by qualified providers. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of treating the Navajo Nation as a state for Medicaid purposes, with an entity having the same authority and performing the same functions as a single-state Medicaid agency responsible for administration of a plan to provide services to Indians living within the boundaries of the Nation.Provides that the requirements of title IV (Access to Health Services) of IHCIA do not apply to any excepted benefits described in the Public Health Service Act relating to supplemental insurance products.Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 for Indian access to health services. Revises requirements for health services for Urban Indians.Revises requirements for evaluations and renewal standards for contracts and grants. Authorizes the Secretary to evaluate each UIO through acceptance of evidence of its accreditation in lieu of an annual onsite evaluation. Revises requirements for other contracts with and grants to UIOs. Allows a single advance payment by the Secretary to a UIO unless it is determined that the organization is not capable of administering such payments, in which case the payments may be made: (1) in semiannual or quarterly payments; or (2) by way of reimbursement.Revises reports and records requirements. Extends the reporting period from quarterly to semi-annual. Requires a report to include a minimum set of data, using uniformly defined elements. Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS and working with a national membership-based consortium of UIOs, to report to Congress on: (1) the health status of Urban Indians; (2) services provided to Indians; and (3) areas of unmet needs in the delivery of health services to Urban Indians, including unmet health care facilities' needs. Modifies the cost of annual audits to allow as a cost of any contract or grant the cost of an independent financial audit (currently, a private audit) conducted by a certified public accountant or a certified public accounting firm qualified to conduct federal compliance audits.Revises requirements for facilities renovation grants. Allows the use of grants for the lease, purchase, construction, or expansion as well as renovation of facilities (currently, only for minor renovations).Authorizes the Secretary, acting through IHS, to study the feasibility of establishing a loan fund to provide UIOs with direct loans or guarantees for loans for health care facility construction.Changes the IHS Branch of Urban Health Programs into an IHS Division of Urban Indian Health.Authorizes the Secretary, acting through IHS, to make grants to UIOs for the provision in Urban Centers of health-related services in prevention, treatment, or rehabilitation of, or school- and community-based education regarding, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.Makes permanent the Tulsa Clinic and Oklahoma City demonstration projects, continuing their treatment as Service Units and Operating Units in the allocation of resources and coordination of care. Subjects such projects to the requirements and definitions of a UIO.Sets September 30, 2010, as the final effective date of any grants to or contracts with UIOs for the administration of Urban Indian alcohol programs transferred to IHS from the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.Requires the Secretary to ensure that IHS confers or conferences with UIOs.Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, to fund the construction and operation of at least one residential treatment center in each eligible Service Area that meets certain criteria to demonstrate the provision of alcohol and substance abuse treatment services to Urban Indian youth in a culturally competent residential setting.Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to UIOs for the prevention and treatment of, and control of the complications resulting from, diabetes among Urban Indians.Permits the Secretary, acting through IHS, to enter into contracts with, and make grants to, UIOs for the employment of Indians as health service providers through the Community Health Representation Program. Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 for health services for urban Indians.Revises requirements for automated management information systems. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director, to enter into contracts, agreements, or joint ventures with other federal agencies, states, and private and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of enhancing information technology in IHPs and facilities.Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 with respect to organizational improvements.Subsumes substance abuse and mental health programs into behavioral health programs.Directs the Secretary, acting through IHS, to: (1) encourage Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations to develop tribal plans and to participate in developing areawide plans for Indian Behavioral Health Services; (2) coordinate with existing national clearinghouses and information centers to include plans and reports on their outcomes; and (3) provide technical assistance for plan preparation and development of standards of care.Requires updates of memoranda of agreement with respect to behavioral health services.Revises requirements for a comprehensive behavioral health prevention and treatment program.Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, to ensure that the mental health technician program involves the use and promotion of the Traditional Health Care Practices of the Indian Tribes to be served.Revises requirements for the Indian women treatment program.Renames the Indian Health Service youth program as the "Indian Youth Program." Authorizes the Secretary, acting through IHS, to provide for intermediate adolescent behavioral health services which include sober or transitional housing. Requires the Secretary to collect the data for an Indian youth mental health report.Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project to test the use of telemental health services in suicide prevention, intervention, and treatment of Indian youth. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2011.Revises requirements for facilities assessment. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through IHS, Indian Tribes, and Tribal Organizations, to provide in each IHS area at least one inpatient mental health care facility, or the equivalent, for Indians with behavioral health problems. Considers California to be two Area Offices for such purposes.Revises requirements for training and community education, including instruction with respect to child sexual abuse.Revises requirements for innovative community-based behavioral health services to Indians, including regarding grants for projects by Tribal Organizations.Revises requirements for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder programs. Directs the Secretary, acting through IHS, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and UIOs, to develop and provide services for early childhood intervention projects and supportive services. Includes the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Task Force.Combines certain demonstration projects regarding child sex abuse into permanent programs for victims of sexual abuse who are Indian children or children in an Indian household.Replaces requirements for mental health research with requirements for behavioral health research.Authorizes the Secretary to establish in each Service Area programs involving the prevention and treatment of: (1) Indian victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse; and (2) perpetrators of domestic violence or sexual abuse who are Indian or members of an Indian household. Sets forth provisions concerning the use of funding for such victims, victim services, and victim advocate training programs.Requires the Director's approval of any request or subpoena for a sexual assault nurse examiner employed by IHS to provide testimony in a deposition, trial, or other similar proceeding regarding information obtained in carrying out the official duties of the nurse examiner.Requires the Director, in coordination with the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice (DOJ), in consultation with Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations, and in conference with UIOs, to develop standardized sexual assault policies and protocol for IHS facilities.Extends the authorization of appropriations through FY2017 for behavioral health programs.Revises reporting requirements and requirements governing regulations to implement IHCIA. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations and in conference with UIOs, to submit to Congress a plan explaining the manner and schedule by which the Secretary will implement the provisions of this Act by title and section.Prohibits IHS funds or facilities from being used to provide any abortions or to provide or pay for any administrative cost of health benefits coverage that includes coverage of an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or where the woman' life is in danger.Prohibits the use of any funds under IHCIA to carry out any anti-firearm program, gun buy-back program, or program to discourage or stigmatize the private ownership of firearms for collecting, hunting, or self-defense purposes.Revises requirements governing the eligibility of California Indians for health services.Revises requirements governing health services for ineligible persons.Requires the Secretary, acting through IHS, to provide services and benefits for Indians in Montana in a manner consistent with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in McNabb for McNabb v. Bowen.Treats Indian Tribes or Tribal Organizations carrying out a contract or compact pursuant to the ISDEAA as not an employer for certain purposes.Establishes the National Bipartisan Indian Health Care Commission to study and make legislative recommendations to Congress regarding the delivery of federal health care services to Indians. Authorizes appropriations.Provides that medical quality assurance records created by or for any IHP or a health program of a UIO as part of a medical quality assurance program are confidential and privileged. Prohibits such records from being: (1) disclosed to any person or entity; or (2) subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Prohibits a person who reviews or creates such records from being permitted or required to testify in any judicial or administrative proceeding with respect to such records or with respect to any finding, recommendation, evaluation, opinion, or action taken in connection with such records. Sets forth exceptions to such requirement to allow specified disclosure and testimony.Encourages state, local, and Indian tribal law enforcement agencies to enter into memoranda of agreement for purposes of streamlining law enforcement activities and maximizing the use of limited resources to: (1) improve law enforcement services provided to Indian tribal communities; and (2) increase the effectiveness of measures to address problems relating to methamphetamine use in Indian Country.Declares that this Act does not: (1) limit the ability of a THP to charge an Indian for services provided by such program; and (2) authorize IHS to charge Indians for services or to require such program to charge Indians for services.Requires the Attorney General to ensure that an Indian victim of sexual violence is tested within a specified time frame for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and for such other sexually transmitted diseases as may be requested by the victim.Requires the Secretary, acting through epidemiology centers, to solicit from independent organizations bids to conduct a study to determine causes for the high prevalence of tobacco use among Indians.Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to study, evaluate the effectiveness of, and report on the coordination of health care services provided to Indians: (1) through Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP; (2) by IHS; or (3) using funds provided by state, local governments, or Indian Tribes.(Sec. 102) Revises federal law authorizing sanitation facilities for the Soboba Band of Mission Indians.(Sec. 103) Amends the ISDEAA to direct the Secretary to establish the Native American Health and Wellness Foundation to conduct activities to further the health and wellness activities and opportunities of Native Americans. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 104) Amends IHCIA and SSA to make technical modifications to specified terms.(Sec. 105) Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct studies of: (1) the utilization of health care furnished by health care providers under the contract health services program funded by IHS and operated by IHS, an Indian Tribe, or a Tribal Organization, including recommendations on the appropriate level of, and most efficient way to utilize, federal funding for health care under such program; (2) membership criteria for federally recognized Indian tribes; and (3) the tribal justice systems of Indian tribes located in North Dakota and South Dakota.Title II: Improvement of Indian Health Care Provided Under the Social Security Act - (Sec. 201) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (SCHIP) of the SSA to conform to this Act.(Sec. 202) Requires the Secretary to encourage states to take steps to provide for enrollment on or near the reservation.(Sec. 203) Provides for increased outreach to, and enrollment of, Indians in SCHIP and Medicaid. Excludes specified outreach activities from the 10% cap on certain SCHIP payments.(Sec. 204) Prohibits the imposition of enrollment fees, premiums, deductions, copayments, cost sharing, or similar charges on an Indian who is furnished an item or service directly by IHS, an Indian Tribe, a Tribal Organization, or a UIO or by a health care provider through referral under the contract health service. Sets forth exemptions.Directs states to disregard specified Indian property for purposes of determining an individual's eligibility for Medicaid.Continues to protect specified Indian property from Medicaid estate recovery.(Sec. 205) Requires nondiscrimination with regard to service providers qualifications for payment for services under federal health care programs.(Sec. 206) Requires the Secretary to maintain within the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services a Tribal Technical Advisory Group.Requires states to establish a process for consultation with the IHPs or UIOs on matters relating to Medicaid that are likely to have a direct effect on Indians or IHPs.(Sec. 207) Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of an IHP, to waive sanctions on a health provider if the sanctions would impose a hardship on individuals entitled to benefits under, or enrolled in, a federal health care program. Deems specified transfers between or among IHPs, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and UIOs to not be treated as remuneration under the SSA.(Sec. 208) Allows Indians enrolled in a non-Indian Medicaid managed care entity (MCE) that has an IHP participating in the network to choose the IHP as the primary care provider. Sets forth requirements for Indian MCEs and for MCEs with significant Indian enrollees.Deems an Indian health care provider to satisfy the requirement that it have medical malpractice insurance if it is: (1) a federally-qualified health center that is covered under the Federal Tort Claims Act; (2) providing services pursuant to a contract under the Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act; or (3) IHS providing services covered under the Federal Tort Claims Act. (Sec. 209) Requires the Secretary to report annually on the enrollment and health status of Indians receiving items or services under the health benefit programs.(Sec. 210) Requires the Secretary to study and report on barriers to interstate coordination of enrollment and coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP of eligible children who frequently change their state of residency or otherwise are temporarily present outside of the state of their residency. Requires such study to include an examination of the enrollment and coverage coordination issues faced by relevant Indian children.(Sec. 211) Requires the Secretary of HHS to establish a National Child Welfare Resource Center for Tribes that is: (1) specifically and exclusively dedicated to meeting the needs of Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations through the provision of assistance; and (2) not part of any existing national child welfare resource center.Requires such Center to provide information, advice, educational materials, and technical assistance to Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations with respect to the types of services, administrative functions, data collection, program management, and reporting that are provided for under State Plans for Child Welfare Services and State Plans and Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Plans of the Social Security Act. Appropriates to the Secretary of HHS funding for FY2009-FY2013 for such assistance.(Sec. 212) Reduces the amount of funding available for FY2013 for the MA (Medicare Advantage) Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.(Sec. 213) Delays until April 1, 2009, implementation of the interim final rule published on December 4, 2007, about a moratorium on the implementation of changes to case management and targeted case management payment requirements under Medicaid.Prohibits the Secretary of HHS from taking action, prior to April 1, 2009, to restrict coverage or payment under state medical assistance programs for case management and targeted case management services if such action is more restrictive than the administrative action, policy, or practice that applies to coverage of, or payment for, such services. Makes any action taken by the Secretary between December 4, 2007, to March 31, 2009, that is based on the interim final rule null and void.Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to participate in the Federal Payment Levy Program.(Sec. 214) Increases: (1) civil and criminal penalties for receiving or paying illegal remunerations under a federal health care program; (2) criminal fines for assisting individuals in disposing assets to become eligible for medical assistance under a state plan; (3) criminal fines for making false statements or representations with respect to the condition or operation of institutions; (4) criminal fines for illegal patient admittance and retention practices; and (5) criminal fines for violation of assignment terms.(Sec. 215) Increases sentences for felonies involving assisting individuals in disposing assets to become eligible for medical assistance under a state plan, receiving or paying illegal remunerations, giving false statements or representations with respect to the condition or operation of institutions, and enabling illegal patient admittance and retention practices.Title III: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 301) Recognizes the relationship Indian Tribes have with the United States.Honors Native Peoples for their stewardship and protection of land.Recognizes that there have been years of official depredations, ill-conceived policies, and the breaking of covenants by the federal government regarding Indian Tribes.Apologizes to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by U.S. citizens.Urges the President to acknowledge the wrongs of the United States against Indian Tribes.Encourages state governments to work toward reconciling relationships with Indian Tribes.

reauthorizes indian health service ihs programs title amendments indian laws sec amends indian_health_care_improvement_act declare national indian health policy raise health status indians urban indians levels set forth goals contained healthy people successor objectives ensure maximum indian participation direction health care services persons administering services services responsive needs desires indian communities ensure united_states indian tribes work ensure quality health care tribal members authorizes approval year extension time equivalent health profession preparatory education scholarship revises indian health scholarship requirements gives director ihs responsibility administration scholarship program requires scholarship recipients work time time frame equal year school year years whichever greater specified programs including working practice addresses health care needs indians teaching tribal college university nursing related health profession program health service provided indians decrease revises requirements establish maximum grant currently colleges universities authorizes appropriations requirements matching grants tribes health professional scholarship programs allows funds scholarship costs source instead non federal sources requires scholarship recipient agree discriminate providing health care individuals basis payment title schip social security act ihs program requirements extends program discretionary basis department_of_health_and_human_services hhs agencies available allows high school program revises requirements programs continuing education allowances authorizes secretary health_and_human_services secretary provide programs allowances transition including licensing board certification examination technical assistance fulfilling service obligations enable health professionals employed leave duty stations period year professional consultation refresher training case nurses additional clinical sexual assault nurse examiner experience maintain competency certification repeals set aside postdoctoral training allows extension continuing education allowances health professionals employed community health representative program requirements renames health paraprofessionals community health representatives indian_health_service_loan_repayment_program requirements requires secretary notify loan repayment applicant approval disapproval days receipt application cancels service payment damages obligation individual death revises scholarship loan repayment recovery fund requirements includes fund sources collections contract breaches scholarships loan repayment programs interest allows use payments received fund provide scholarships revises requirements recruitment activities allow travel reimbursement health professionals seeking positions revises indian recruitment retention program advanced training research requirements specifying involvement health professionals worked nursing grant program eliminates program grants establish nursing school clinics makes tribal cultural orientation history education ihs employees mandatory requires education describe use place traditional health care practices ihs area revises requirements indians medicine program revises community college health training program requirements require grant receiving community colleges relationship hospital mere access agree provide preference indian applicants establishes funding priority tribal colleges universities exist repeals authority additional incentives health professionals extends retention bonuses health professional doctors nurses employed permits secretary provide bonuses professionals completed currently years employment service obligations incurred requirement federal scholarship loan repayment program repeals requirement retention bonus paid beginning term service limits nursing residency training program indians working allows education leading advanced degree certification nursing public health currently master degree allows obligated service community health aide program requirements requires secretary acting ensure therapy extraction adult teeth performed dental health aide therapist consultation licensed dentist determines procedure medical emergency resolved palliative treatment prohibits therapists performing oral requires secretary acting ihs establish neutral panel study dental health aide therapist services program directs secretary act ihs provide training indians administration planning authorizes secretary acting ihs fund health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs prohibits secretary removing national_health_service_corps member revises requirements substance abuse counselor educational curricula demonstration programs extends initial grant period year years renewal periods year years converts mental health behavioral health training community education programs making indian tribes participants repeals pilot program authorizes appropriations fy2017 indian health human resources development revises requirements authorizes secretary expend funds directly authority indian self determination education assistance act adds telehealth telemedicine uses funds elimination inequities funding direct care contract health service programs revises requirements prohibits allocation apportionment delegation funds similar basis requires secretary use specified negotiated rulemaking process promulgation regulations revises requirements revises diabetes prevention treatment control requirements directs secretary establish cost effective approach ensure ongoing monitoring disease indicators continue maintain model diabetes project existence enactment act authorizes secretary establish position diabetes control officer converts shared services long term care demonstration project permanent program repeals certain contract eligibility requirements directs secretary encourage use existing underused facilities allow use beds long term similar care revises health services research requirements replaces current set aside research general authority fund research instead ihs requires secretary coordinate resources activities address relevant research needs authorizes use research funding clinical research requires secretary evaluate impact research disseminate information research revises requirements coverage screening mammography eliminates minimum age requirement indian women opens screening mammography indian women frequency appropriate women accepted appropriate national standards requires secretary provide cancer screening receives rating recommended united_states_preventive_services_task_force requires secretary ensure screening provided complies task_force recommendations revises patient travel cost requirements authorizes secretary provide funds appropriate necessary qualified escorts transportation private vehicle means transportation available specially equipped vehicle ambulance available means air motor vehicle transportation available revises epidemiology center requirements requires secretary establish epidemiology center service area authorizes secretary grants indian tribes indian organizations eligible intertribal consortia conduct epidemiological studies indian communities requires secretary grant epidemiology centers operated grantee access use data data sets monitoring systems delivery systems protected health information secretary possession use data research preventing controlling disease injury disability purposes health_insurance_portability_and_accountability_act repeals requirements secretary develop sets data formats uniform collecting reporting information establish system monitoring progress health objectives revises requirements comprehensive school health education programs includes urban indian youth beneficiaries extends specified disease prevention control elimination program tuberculosis communicable infectious diseases makes permanent demonstration project home- community based care including hospice care assisted living services long term care services revises requirements program repeals prohibition use funds cash payments room board construction nursing facility services requires secretary acting ihs indian tribes monitor improve quality health care indian women ages planning delivery ihs programs revises requirements nuclear resource development health hazards study health plan development program extends program ongoing monitoring environmental health hazards generally including petroleum contamination contamination water sources food chain nuclear resource development extends fy2016 designation arizona contract health service delivery area designates north_dakota south_dakota contract health service delivery areas converts current california contract health services demonstration program permanent program allows excluded counties contract service area funding specifically provided ihs contract health services counties repeals specified limitation provision funds health care programs facilities operated indian tribes exempts state licensing requirements health care professionals employed perform services described contract compact ihs pay valid claim currently completed claim days completion claim denies recourse service provider patient contract health care services claim deemed accepted secretary establish coordinate promote health status indian men extends authorization appropriations health services indians requirements health facilities requires indian health facility meet construction standards accrediting body recognized secretary programs title xviii medicare title xix medicaid title schip social security act requires secretary acting ihs maintain health care facility priority system shall developed consultation indian tribes indian tribes needs highest priority provide opportunity nomination planning design construction projects ihs indian tribes consideration priority system years requires secretary submit congress report describes comprehensive national ranked list health care facilities needs ihs indian tribes developed requires secretary cooperate indian tribes confer developing innovative approaches address unmet need construction health facilities include establishment area distribution fund portion health facility construction funding devoted service areas revises requirements safe water sanitary waste disposal facilities called sanitation facilities requires secretary provide priority funding emergency repairs operation maintenance sanitation facilities avoid imminent health threats currently hazards protect investment health benefits gained sanitation facilities prohibits use ihs funding new homes constructed department_of_housing_and_urban_development hud funds authorizes secretary accept funds source placement contracts compacts sanitation facilities services authorizes secretary use sanitation facilities appropriations fund tribal loans new sanitation facility projects meet matching cost participation requirements federal nonfederal programs new projects directs secretary establish standards applicable planning design construction sanitation facilities authorizes secretary accept payment goods services furnished ihs public authorities nonprofit organizations agencies indian tribes declares indian tribe primary responsibility establishing collecting user fees authorizes secretary assist short term basis indian tribe indian community tribally operated sanitation facility threatened imminent failure revises requirements determining sanitation deficiency levels revises pay rate specified wage requirements respect preference indians indian firms construction tribally related health sanitation facilities revises requirements expenditure funds renovation include major expansion authorized use requires indian tribe provide secretary certain information staffing equipment costs associated expansion requires methodology determining priorities developed updated regulations revises requirements grant program construction expansion modernization small ambulatory care facilities revises requirements alternative indian health care delivery demonstration project requirements permitting use ihs funds match funds requiring secretary priority demonstration projects located specified authorizes federal agencies addition bureau_of_indian_affairs bia transfer ihs secretary accept land improvements provision health care services revises requirements leases contracts agreements secretary indian tribes add tribal organizations eligible lessors directs secretary study report specified congressional committees feasibility establishing loan fund provide indian tribes tribal organizations direct loans guarantees loans construction health care facilities authorizes lease permanent structures purpose providing health care services obtaining advance approval appropriations acts renames certain joint venture demonstration projects makes eligible participation requires secretary develop project need criteria negotiated rulemaking process requires negotiation continued operation facility end initial year cost lease period authorizes recovery proportional united_states ihs ceases use facility year lease period includes staff quarters definition health facility purposes program requirements revises requirements concerning priority location ihs facilities indian lands grants priority indian land owned indian tribes includes lands lands alaska owned alaska_native village village regional corporation alaska_native_claims_settlement_act land allotted alaska_native requires secretary identify report congress accompanying president budget backlog maintenance repair work required ihs tribal health care facilities authorizes operates hospital health facility associated federally owned quarters pursuant contract compact establish rental rates charged occupants quarters collect rents directly federal employees occupy quarters exempts indian tribes tribal organizations requirements buy_american_act authorizes secretary accept source including federal state agencies funds available construction health care facilities indians place funds contract compact enter interagency agreements planning design construction health care facilities authorizes appropriations fy2017 indian health facilities revises requirements access health services prohibits consideration determining appropriations health care services indians medicare medicaid schip payments reimbursements received requires secretary ensure service unit ihs receives currently facilities entitled requires amounts improvements ihs programs necessary achieve maintain compliance applicable conditions requirements titles xviii medicare xix medicaid ssa amounts received excess necessary achieve maintain conditions requirements reducing health resource deficiencies revises requirements direct billing program revises requirements grants contracts ihs indian tribes assist individual indians enroll medicare medicaid schip benefits revises requirements reimbursement certain parties costs health services grants united_states indian tribe including right seek recovery parties requires reasonable efforts provide notice individual health services provided pendency action gives specified tribal organizations right recover reasonable value health services furnished paid paid accordance extent circumstances united_states recover act provides rights independent rights injured person served indian tribe denies united_states right recovery tribal self insured plan written authorization tribe prohibits denial claim benefits based format claim submitted format complies certain requirements authorizes indian tribes use certain funds purchase health care coverage revises requirements respect sharing arrangements federal agencies authorizes secretary enter agreements sharing medical facilities departments_of_veterans_affairs defense dod requiring dod reimbursement services provided ihs indian tribe beneficiaries eligible services department requires secretary provide veteran related expenses incurred eligible indian veterans establish guidelines method payments secretary makes health care programs operated payor resort services provided eligible persons requires nondiscrimination regard service provider qualifications reimbursement services qualified providers directs secretary study report congress feasibility treating navajo nation state medicaid purposes entity having authority performing functions single state medicaid agency responsible administration plan provide services indians living boundaries nation provides requirements title access health services apply excepted benefits described public_health_service_act relating supplemental insurance products authorizes appropriations fy2017 indian access health services revises requirements health services urban indians revises requirements evaluations renewal standards contracts grants authorizes secretary evaluate acceptance evidence accreditation lieu annual onsite evaluation revises requirements contracts grants allows single advance payment secretary determined organization capable administering payments case payments semiannual quarterly payments way reimbursement revises reports records requirements extends reporting period quarterly semi annual requires report include minimum set data uniformly defined elements requires secretary acting ihs working national membership based consortium report congress health status urban indians services provided indians areas unmet needs delivery health services urban indians including unmet health care facilities needs modifies cost annual audits allow cost contract grant cost independent financial audit currently private audit conducted certified public accountant certified public accounting firm qualified conduct federal compliance audits revises requirements facilities renovation grants allows use grants lease purchase construction expansion renovation facilities currently minor secretary acting ihs study feasibility establishing loan fund provide direct loans guarantees loans health care facility construction changes urban health programs authorizes secretary acting ihs grants provision health related services prevention treatment rehabilitation community based education fetal alcohol spectrum disorders makes permanent oklahoma_city demonstration projects continuing treatment allocation resources coordination care subjects projects requirements definitions september final effective date grants contracts administration alcohol programs transferred ihs requires secretary ensure ihs confers conferences requires secretary acting ihs fund construction operation residential treatment center eligible meets certain criteria demonstrate provision alcohol substance abuse treatment services urban indian youth culturally competent residential setting authorizes secretary grants prevention treatment control complications resulting diabetes urban indians permits secretary acting ihs enter contracts grants employment indians health service providers authorizes appropriations fy2017 health services urban indians revises requirements automated management information systems authorizes secretary acting director enter contracts agreements joint ventures federal agencies states private nonprofit organizations purpose enhancing information technology facilities authorizes appropriations fy2017 respect organizational improvements substance abuse mental health programs behavioral health programs directs secretary acting ihs encourage indian tribes develop tribal plans participate developing plans coordinate existing national clearinghouses information centers include plans reports outcomes provide technical assistance plan preparation development standards care requires updates memoranda agreement respect behavioral health services revises requirements comprehensive behavioral health prevention treatment program requires secretary acting ihs ensure mental health technician program involves use promotion tribes served revises requirements indian women treatment program renames indian_health_service youth program indian youth program authorizes secretary acting ihs provide intermediate adolescent behavioral health services include transitional housing requires secretary collect data indian youth mental health report authorizes secretary carry demonstration project test use telemental health services suicide prevention intervention treatment indian youth authorizes appropriations fy2008 requirements facilities assessment authorizes secretary acting ihs indian tribes provide ihs area inpatient mental health care facility equivalent indians behavioral health problems considers california area offices purposes revises requirements training community education including instruction respect child sexual abuse revises requirements innovative community based behavioral health services indians including grants projects revises requirements fetal alcohol spectrum disorder programs directs secretary acting ihs indian tribes develop provide services early childhood intervention projects supportive services includes centers_for_disease_control_and_prevention fetal alcohol spectrum disorder task force combines certain demonstration projects child sex abuse permanent programs victims sexual abuse indian children children indian household replaces requirements mental health research requirements behavioral health research authorizes secretary establish programs involving prevention treatment indian victims domestic violence sexual abuse perpetrators domestic violence sexual abuse indian members indian household sets forth provisions concerning use funding victims victim services victim advocate training programs requires director approval request subpoena sexual assault nurse examiner employed ihs provide testimony deposition trial similar proceeding information obtained carrying official duties nurse examiner requires director coordination director doj consultation indian tribes conference develop standardized sexual assault policies protocol ihs facilities extends authorization appropriations fy2017 behavioral health programs revises reporting requirements requirements governing regulations implement requires secretary consultation indian tribes conference submit congress plan explaining manner schedule secretary implement provisions act title section prohibits ihs funds facilities provide abortions provide pay administrative cost health benefits coverage includes coverage abortion cases rape incest woman life danger prohibits use funds carry anti firearm program gun buy program program discourage private ownership firearms collecting hunting self defense purposes revises requirements governing eligibility california indians health services revises requirements governing health services ineligible persons requires secretary acting ihs provide services benefits indians montana manner consistent decision ninth_circuit treats indian tribes tribal organizations carrying contract compact pursuant employer certain purposes establishes study legislative recommendations congress delivery federal health care services indians authorizes appropriations provides medical quality assurance records created health program medical quality assurance program confidential privileged prohibits records disclosed person entity subject discovery admitted evidence judicial administrative proceeding prohibits person reviews creates records permitted required testify judicial administrative proceeding respect records respect finding recommendation evaluation opinion action taken connection records sets forth exceptions requirement allow specified disclosure testimony encourages state local indian tribal law enforcement agencies enter memoranda agreement purposes streamlining law enforcement activities maximizing use limited resources improve law enforcement services provided indian tribal communities increase effectiveness measures address problems relating methamphetamine use declares act limit ability charge indian services provided program authorize ihs charge indians services require program charge indians services requires attorney general ensure indian victim sexual violence tested specified time frame human immunodeficiency virus hiv sexually transmitted diseases requested victim requires secretary acting epidemiology centers solicit independent organizations bids conduct study determine causes high prevalence tobacco use indians requires comptroller general united_states study evaluate effectiveness report coordination health care services provided indians medicare medicaid schip ihs funds provided state local governments indian revises federal law authorizing sanitation facilities amends direct secretary establish conduct activities health wellness activities opportunities native americans authorizes amends ssa technical modifications specified requires comptroller general united_states conduct studies utilization health care furnished health care providers contract health services program funded ihs operated ihs indian tribe including recommendations appropriate level efficient way utilize federal funding health care program membership criteria federally recognized indian tribes tribal justice systems indian tribes located north_dakota south_dakota title improvement indian health care provided social security act sec amends title xix medicaid xxi schip ssa conform requires secretary encourage states steps provide enrollment near provides increased outreach enrollment indians schip medicaid excludes specified outreach activities cap certain schip prohibits imposition enrollment fees premiums deductions copayments cost sharing similar charges indian furnished item service directly ihs indian tribe health care provider referral contract health service sets forth exemptions directs states disregard specified indian property purposes determining individual eligibility medicaid continues protect specified indian property medicaid estate requires nondiscrimination regard service providers qualifications payment services federal health care requires secretary maintain centers medicaid requires states establish process consultation matters relating medicaid likely direct effect indians authorizes secretary case waive sanctions health provider sanctions impose hardship individuals entitled benefits enrolled federal health care program deems specified transfers indian tribes treated remuneration allows indians enrolled non indian medicaid managed care entity participating network choose primary care provider sets forth requirements indian significant indian enrollees deems indian health care provider satisfy requirement medical malpractice insurance federally qualified health center covered federal tort claims act providing services pursuant contract indian self determination education assistance_act ihs providing services covered federal tort claims act sec requires secretary report annually enrollment health status indians receiving items services health benefit requires secretary study report barriers interstate coordination enrollment coverage medicaid schip eligible children frequently change state residency temporarily present outside state residency requires study include examination enrollment coverage coordination issues faced relevant indian requires secretary hhs establish specifically exclusively dedicated meeting needs indian tribes tribal organizations provision assistance existing national child welfare resource center requires center provide information advice educational materials technical assistance indian tribes tribal organizations respect types services administrative functions data collection program management reporting provided state plans child welfare services state plans plans social security act appropriates secretary hhs funding fy2009 fy2013 reduces funding available fy2013 medicare_advantage regional plan stabilization delays april implementation interim final rule published december moratorium implementation changes case management targeted case management payment requirements medicaid prohibits secretary hhs taking action prior april restrict coverage payment state medical assistance programs case management targeted case management services action restrictive administrative action policy practice applies coverage payment services makes action taken secretary december march based interim final rule null void requires centers participate federal payment levy increases civil criminal penalties receiving paying illegal federal health care program criminal fines assisting individuals disposing assets eligible medical assistance state plan criminal fines making false statements representations respect condition operation institutions criminal fines illegal patient admittance retention practices criminal fines violation assignment increases sentences felonies involving assisting individuals disposing assets eligible medical assistance state plan receiving paying illegal giving false statements representations respect condition operation institutions enabling illegal patient admittance retention practices title iii miscellaneous sec recognizes relationship indian tribes united_states honors native peoples stewardship protection land recognizes years official ill conceived policies breaking covenants federal government indian tribes native peoples instances violence maltreatment neglect citizens urges president acknowledge united_states indian tribes encourages state governments work relationships indian tribes


Summary: Indian Arts and Crafts Amendments Act of 2008 - Amends the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 to: (1) authorize any federal law enforcement officer to conduct an investigation of an offense involving the sale of any item that is misrepresented as an Indian produced good or product that occurs on land under the jurisdiction of the federal government; and (2) authorize the Indian Arts and Crafts Board to refer an alleged violation to any federal law enforcement officer (currently, just to the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]) for appropriate investigation. Permits a federal law enforcement officer to investigate an alleged violation regardless of whether such officer receives a referral from the Board. Requires that the findings of an investigation of such an alleged violation by any federal department or agency be submitted to a federal or state prosecuting authority or the Board. Authorizes the Board, upon receiving the findings of such an investigation, to: (1) recommend to the Attorney General that criminal proceedings be initiated (current law); and (2) provide such support to the Attorney General relating to the criminal proceedings as the Attorney General determines to be appropriate. Allows the Board, in lieu of or in addition to any such criminal proceeding, to recommend that the Attorney General initiate a civil action. Revises the definitions and requirements relating to civil actions for mispresentation of Indian produced goods and products.Amends the federal criminal code to base criminal penalties for misrepresentation of Indian produced goods and products upon the value of such goods and products.

indian_arts amends indian_arts crafts_act authorize federal law enforcement officer conduct investigation offense involving sale item misrepresented indian produced good product occurs land jurisdiction federal government authorize indian_arts crafts_board refer alleged violation federal law enforcement officer currently federal_bureau_of_investigation fbi appropriate investigation permits federal law enforcement officer investigate alleged violation regardless officer receives referral board requires findings investigation alleged violation federal department agency submitted federal state prosecuting authority board authorizes board receiving findings investigation recommend attorney general criminal proceedings initiated current law provide support attorney general relating criminal proceedings attorney general determines appropriate allows board lieu addition criminal proceeding recommend attorney general initiate civil action revises definitions requirements relating civil actions indian produced goods products amends federal criminal code base criminal penalties misrepresentation indian produced goods products value goods products


Summary: Allows, subject to the provisions of this Act, the Coquille Indian Tribe of Oregon to transfer, lease, encumber, or otherwise convey, without further authorization or approval, any land or interest in land owned by the Tribe.

allows subject provisions act transfer lease encumber convey authorization approval land interest land owned tribe


Summary: (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)Amends the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act to repeal the declaration that specified land accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Lytton Rancheria in California shall be deemed to have been held in trust and part of the reservation of the Rancheria prior to October 17, 1988. (The date on the recorded deed is October 16, 2000.) Allows the Lytton Rancheria to conduct activities for class II gaming on the land taken into trust.Prohibits the Lytton Rancheria from expanding the exterior physical measurements of any facility on the Rancheria in use for class II gaming activities.States that, for class III gaming purposes, the land taken into trust shall be treated, for purposes of provisions relating to gaming on lands acquired in trust after October 17, 1988, as if the land was acquired on October 9, 2003, the date on which the Secretary took it into trust.

measure amended introduced summary version repeated repeal declaration specified land accepted secretary interior benefit california shall deemed held trust reservation rancheria prior october date recorded deed october allows rancheria conduct activities class gaming land taken trust prohibits expanding exterior physical measurements facility rancheria use class gaming activities states class iii gaming purposes land taken trust shall treated purposes provisions relating gaming lands acquired trust october land acquired october date secretary took trust


Summary: Denali Commission Act Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 to provide that no member of the Commission, other than the Federal Co-chairperson, shall be considered to be a federal employee. Authorizes the Commission to accept, use, and dispose of matching funds provided by public and private sources for projects approved by the Commission.Provides that each Commission member who is not a federal employee may elect to waive compensation. Authorizes (current law requires) the Federal Co-chairperson to appoint an Economic Development Committee consisting of specified representatives. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make direct lump sum payments to the Commission to be used to carry out a training program on careers associated with infrastructure development and long-term stability in rural Alaska. Requires the program to focus on: (1) training for construction, operations, and maintenance of Commission projects; (2) management training relating to the operation of Commission projects; (3) initiatives for Alaskan youths to encourage careers that support Commission projects; and (4) training for construction, operations, and maintenance for public infrastructure projects.Directs the Commission to provide assistance to address the housing needs of teachers in rural Alaska. Authorizes the Commission to assist in housing development activities.Authorizes appropriations through FY2014.

denali_commission act amendments act amends commission act provide member commission shall considered federal employee authorizes commission accept use dispose matching funds provided public private sources projects approved commission provides commission member federal employee elect waive compensation authorizes current law requires appoint consisting specified representatives authorizes secretary labor direct lump sum payments commission carry training program careers associated infrastructure development long term stability rural alaska requires program focus training construction operations maintenance commission projects management training relating operation commission projects initiatives alaskan youths encourage careers support commission projects training construction operations maintenance public infrastructure projects directs commission provide assistance address housing needs teachers rural alaska authorizes commission assist housing development activities authorizes appropriations fy2014


Summary: Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 for: (1) type I diabetes research; and (2) diabetes prevention and treatment through Indian health facilities.

amends public_health_service_act authorize appropriations fy2009 fy2013 type diabetes research diabetes prevention treatment indian health facilities


Summary: Voluntary Public Access and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which states and tribal governments may apply for grants to encourage owners and operators of privately-held farm, ranch, and forest land to voluntarily make such land available for public access for wildlife-dependent recreation (including hunting or fishing) under state- and tribally-administered plans. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to exclude from excess base acreage computation for direct and counter-cyclical payment purposes certain conservation enrolled farm land not planted in an agricultural commodity.

program act amends food security act direct secretary agriculture establish program states tribal governments apply grants encourage owners operators privately held farm ranch forest land voluntarily land available public access wildlife dependent recreation including hunting fishing state- tribally administered plans amends farm_security rural investment act exclude excess base acreage computation direct counter cyclical payment purposes certain conservation enrolled farm land planted agricultural commodity


Summary: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to permit the Native residents of each of the Native Villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Urban Corporations and to receive certain settlement lands and other compensation pursuant to this Act.

unrecognized southeast alaska native communities recognition compensation act amends alaska native claims settlement act permit native residents native_villages_of_haines ketchikan petersburg tenakee organize urban_corporations receive certain settlement lands compensation pursuant act


Summary: Tribal Health Promotion and Tribal Colleges and Universities Advancement Act of 2008 - Title I: Through Higher Education: Promoting the Advancement of Tribal Health - Through Higher Education: Promoting the Advancement of Tribal Health Act or THE PATH Act - (Sec. 104) Designates the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health within the Office of Public Health and Science of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the coordinating officer for programs of tribal colleges and universities (tribal colleges) relating to health care workforce development and health promotion and disease prevention.Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a formal memorandum of agreement with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium to establish programs to ensure equitable Native American participation in HHS programs, services, and resources and to provide technical assistance to tribal colleges. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary to provide for grants, or enter into cooperative agreements with, tribal colleges to: (1) carry out annual, community-based, and culturally relevant health and wellness fairs at tribal colleges; and (2) assist tribal colleges to carry out health promotion and disease prevention programs and reduce health disparities in tribal communities. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2017.(Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to provide grants to tribal colleges to develop and strengthen public health professional degree programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2017.(Sec. 108) Establishes in the Treasury the Tribal College and University Rural Health Equity Endowment Fund to establish and maintain an endowment for a health professions workforce development program at tribal colleges. (Sec. 109) Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to establish and maintain at tribal college offices sponsored programs for research, grant management, and coordination of tribal college activities.Requires tribal colleges to report to the Director in FY2010-FY2018 on sponsored programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2017.(Sec. 110) Directs the Secretary to provide for competitive grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, tribal colleges to conduct research on health promotion and disease prevention at the tribal colleges. Limits the term of such grants or cooperative agreements to three years and establishes the minimum amount of grants at $150,000 for a fiscal year. Provides a one-year term and a $10,000 minimum amount for undergraduate research experience program grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2017. Title II: Advancing Tribes through Tribal Colleges and Universities - Advancing Tribes Through Tribal Colleges and Universities Act or the AT TCUs Act - (Sec. 203) Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish the TCU Native Prosperity Program to provide for grants to, or offer to enter into cooperative agreements with, eligible tribal colleges to promote economic development, entrepreneurship, community development, and sound fiscal leadership in Indian communities. Limits grant periods to five years, but allows a three-year extension on a non-competitive basis for tribal colleges that perform successfully. Allows a tribal college to use assistance received under this Act to carry out specified activities, including: (1) microenterprise development; (2) business development and administration courses and degree programs; (3) entrepreneurship programs; (4) municipality planning and administration courses, degree programs, and in-service training; and (5) executive leadership training in economic development, planning, and emerging management issues. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium to provide tribal colleges with technical assistance.Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2012.(Sec. 204) Defines "tribal college or university" to mean: (1) an institution that is eligible to receive funds under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978; (2) Dine College; and (3) any of the 1994 Institutions listed in the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994.

tribal_colleges universities advancement act title higher education promoting advancement tribal health higher education promoting advancement tribal health act path act sec designates deputy assistant secretary hhs coordinating officer programs tribal colleges universities tribal colleges relating health care workforce development health promotion disease prevention requires secretary health_and_human_services develop implement formal memorandum agreement establish programs ensure equitable native american participation hhs programs services resources provide technical assistance tribal colleges sec directs secretary provide grants enter cooperative agreements tribal colleges carry annual community based culturally relevant health wellness fairs tribal colleges assist tribal colleges carry health promotion disease prevention programs reduce health disparities tribal communities authorizes appropriations fy2009 directs secretary provide grants tribal colleges develop strengthen public health professional degree programs authorizes appropriations fy2009 establishes treasury tribal_college establish maintain endowment health professions workforce development program tribal colleges sec directs secretary establish grant program establish maintain tribal college offices sponsored programs research grant management coordination tribal college activities requires tribal colleges report director fy2010 fy2018 sponsored programs authorizes appropriations fy2009 directs secretary provide competitive grants enter cooperative agreements tribal colleges conduct research health promotion disease prevention tribal colleges limits term grants cooperative agreements years establishes minimum grants fiscal year provides year term minimum undergraduate research experience program grants authorizes appropriations title advancing tribes tribal_colleges universities act act sec amends workforce investment act require secretary labor establish provide grants offer enter cooperative agreements eligible tribal colleges promote economic development entrepreneurship community development sound fiscal leadership indian communities limits grant periods years allows year extension non competitive basis tribal colleges perform successfully allows tribal college use assistance received act carry specified activities including microenterprise development business development administration courses degree programs entrepreneurship programs municipality planning administration courses degree programs service training executive leadership training economic development planning emerging management issues authorizes secretary enter cooperative agreement provide tribal colleges technical assistance authorizes appropriations defines tribal college university mean institution eligible receive funds tribally_controlled_college university assistance act dine college institutions listed equity educational land grant status act


Summary: Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to extend until July 27, 2008, the deadline for an Indian tribe to elect to participate as a jurisdiction in the sex offender registration program under such Act or delegate its functions to another jurisdiction.

amends adam walsh child protection safety act extend july deadline indian tribe elect participate jurisdiction sex offender registration program act delegate functions jurisdiction


Summary: Tribal Government Tax-Exempt Bond Parity Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by an Indian tribal government or subdivision if: (1) at least 95 percent of the net proceeds are used to finance facilities on the Indian reservation of such Indian tribal government; or (2) the obligation is part of an issue substantially all of whose proceeds are to be used in the exercise of an essential government function. Excludes an obligation used to finance any part of a building in which class II or III gaming is conducted or housed or any other property actually used in the conduct of such gaming. Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt obligations issued by an Indian tribal government or subdivision from registration requirements.

parity act amends internal revenue code permit issuance tax exempt bonds indian tribal government subdivision percent net proceeds finance facilities indian reservation indian tribal government obligation issue substantially proceeds exercise essential government function excludes obligation finance building class iii gaming conducted housed property actually conduct gaming amends securities act exempt obligations issued indian tribal government subdivision registration requirements


Summary: Tribal Foster Care and Adoption Access Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize an Indian tribe, tribal organization, or tribal consortium (tribe) operating a foster care program to receive federal foster care maintenance payments for children placed in its custody if the tribe: (1) operates a foster care program under part E; (2) has a cooperative agreement with the state for such purpose; or (3) submits a description of the arrangements made for the payment of funds and the provision of the required child welfare services and protections. Specifies provisions for the modification of plans and certain other requirements regarding the operation of foster care programs. Authorizes, with respect to the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program: (1) a tribe with an approved part E plan to receive a prescribed allotment to administer, supervise, or oversee plan programs; and (2) each tribe in a state that does not receive such an allotment to enter into a cooperative agreement with the state to administer, supervise, or oversee the programs to be carried out under the state's plan with respect to Indian children and to receive a portion of the state's allotment for the cost of such administration, supervision, and oversight.

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