Summary: Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2007 - Extends federal recognition to the following Indian tribes of Virginia and states their relationship with the federal government as described below: (1) the Chickahominy Tribe; (2) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division; (3) the Upper Mattaponi Tribe; (4) the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.; (5) the Monacan Indian Nation; and (6) the Nansemond Indian Tribe. Makes each Tribe and tribal members eligible for all services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized Indian tribes. Sets forth the service area of the Tribe and requirements for the Tribe with respect to submission of a membership roll and governing documents and the governing body of the Tribe. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon a certain land transfer, to take specified lands into trust for the benefit of the Tribe, which shall be considered part of the Tribe's reservation. Prohibits the Tribe from conducting gaming activities.Specifies this Act's effect with regard to the hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, and water rights of the Tribe and its members. Grants the state of Virginia jurisdiction over criminal offenses and civil actions on lands within Virginia that are owned by or held in trust for the Tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to accept all or a portion of the state's jurisdiction over such offenses and actions upon verification by the Secretary of a certification by a tribe that it possesses the capacity to reassume such jurisdiction.

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Summary: Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2007 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a tribal reservation or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian Reservation. Directs the Tribe to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a membership roll consisting of all individuals enrolled as members of the Tribe.Directs the Secretary to acquire trust title to 200 acres of land within the Tribe's service area for the benefit of the Tribe for a tribal land base.

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Summary: Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 2007 - (Sec. 2) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report on the system of third-party payment collections for items and services furnished through the Indian Health Service (IHS).Title I: Amendments to Indian Laws - (Sec. 101) Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (the Act) to declare a new national Indian health policy in order 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; and (2) allow Indians, to the greatest extent possible, to set their own health care priorities and establish goals that reflect their unmet needs.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. 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 Indian's health care needs 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 nonfederal 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 the Indian health service extern program requirements. Extends the extern program to a Tribal Health Program or an Urban Indian Organization (on a discretionary basis) or other HHS agencies (as available). Allows a high school extern program.Revises requirements for programs for continuing education allowances. Authorizes the Secretary to provide programs or allowances to: (1) transition into an Indian Health Program, including licensing, board or certification examination and technical assistance, in fulfilling service obligations, and (2) enable health professionals employed in an Indian Health Program to take leave of their duty stations for a period of time each year for professional consultation and refresher training. Repeals the set-aside for postdoctoral training. Allows extension of continuing education allowances to health professionals employed in an Indian Health Program or an Urban Indian Organization.Revises community health representative program requirements. Renames health paraprofessionals community health representatives.Revises Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program requirements. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services 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 (LRRF) requirements. Includes among Fund sources any collections from contract breaches for the scholarships or loan repayment programs and interest. Allows Tribal Health Programs also to use payments received from the LRRF to provide scholarships.Revises requirements for recruitment activities to allow travel reimbursement of health professionals seeking positions with Indian Health Programs or Urban Indian Organizations. Revises Indian recruitment and retention program and advanced training and research requirements, specifying the involvement of health professionals who have worked in an Indian Health Program or Urban Indian Organization.Renames the nursing grant program 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 health training programs of community colleges requirements to require grant-receiving community colleges to: (1) have a relationship with a hospital rather than mere access; and (2) agree to provide for Indian preference for program 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 Indian Health or Urban Indian Organization programs. Permits the Secretary to provide such bonuses to professionals who have completed: (1) two (currently, three) years of employment with an Indian Health Program or Urban Indian Organization; 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 Indian Health Program or Urban Indian Organization. Allows education leading to any advanced degrees or certifications in nursing or public health (currently, a Master's degree). Allows obligated service in an Urban Indian Organization.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 the IHS, to establish a neutral panel to study the dental health aide therapist services under such program.Directs the Secretary to act through the IHS to provide training for Indians in the administration and planning of Tribal Health Programs.Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the IHS, to fund health professional chronic shortage demonstration programs.Prohibits the Secretary from removing a National Health Service Corps member from an Indian Health Program or an Urban Indian Organization. Exempts National Health Service (NHS) Corps scholars qualifying for the Commissioned Corps in the U.S. Public Health Service from the full-time equivalent limitations of the NHS Corps and the IHS when serving as a commissioned corps officer in a Tribal Health Program or an Urban Indian Organization.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 Indian health programs, instead of only the IHS. Requires the Secretary to coordinate, to the maximum extent practicable, resources and activities to address relevant Indian Health Program 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 Tribal Health Programs 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 costs 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, Urban Indian Organizations, and eligible intertribal consortia to conduct epidemiological studies of Indian communities. Declares that an epidemiology center operated by a grantee shall be treated as a public health authority 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, including 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, and long-term care. Revises requirements for the program. Authorizes the Secretary to establish standards for a service, provided that they are not more stringent than those required by the state in which the service is provided. 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 the IHS, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Urban Indian Organizations, 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 source and of the food chain, as well as nuclear resource development. Requires the Intergovernmental Task Force to include as members the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Indian Health Service or their designees.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 Tribal Health Program to perform services described in its contract or compact under the ISDEAA.Requires the 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 the 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 the 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 the Service, 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 the Service, Indian Tribes, and Tribal Organizations developed by them for the Facilities Needs Assessment Workgroup and the Facilities Appropriation Advisory Board.Revises requirements on safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities, now simply 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 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 the Service 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 of such funds. 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 projects requirements by, among other changes: (1) permitting the use of IHS funds to match other funds; (2) requiring the Secretary to promulgate regulations, not later than one year after this Act's enactment, for the review and approval of applications for such projects; and (3) requiring the Secretary to give priority to demonstration projects located in specified Service Units. Authorizes all other federal agencies, in addition to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), to transfer, at no cost, land and improvements to IHS for the provision of health care services. Authorizes the Secretary to accept such land and improvements for such purposes.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 Tribal Health Program to lease permanent structures for the purpose of providing health care services without obtaining advanced approval in appropriations Acts.Renames certain joint venture demonstration projects 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 the 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 Joint Venture Program requirements.Revises requirements on priority in location of IHS facilities on Indian lands. Grants top priority to Indian land owned by one or more Indian tribes. Includes among such lands all lands in Alaska owned by any Alaska Native village, or village or regional corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, or 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 Tribal Health Program 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 Indian Health Program or by an Urban Indian Organization. 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 the Service'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 Urban Indian Organizations 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 an Urban Indian Organization, 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 Urban Indian Organizations 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 of Defense (DOD), requiring VA or DOD reimbursement where services are provided through the IHS, an Indian Tribe, or a Tribal Organization, to beneficiaries eligible for services from either Department.Makes Indian Health Programs and health care programs operated by Urban Indian Organizations 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 the Act 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 Urban Indian Organization through acceptance of evidence of its accreditation in lieu of an annual onsite evaluation. Revises requirements for other contracts with and grants to Urban Indian Organizations. Allows a single advance payment by the Secretary to an Urban Indian Organization 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, extending 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 the Service, 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. Modifies the cost of annual audits to specify independent financial audits (currently, private audits) 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 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 the IHS, to study the feasibility of establishing a loan fund to provide Urban Indian Organizations 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.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 an Urban Indian Organization.Sets September 30, 2010, as the final effective date of any grants to or contracts with Urban Indian Organizations for the administration of Urban Indian alcohol programs transferred to the IHS from the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse.Establishes consultation requirements with Urban Indian Organizations.Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the IHS, to: (1) fund the construction and operation of at least two residential treatment centers in each state meeting 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 Urban Indian Organizations for the prevention and treatment of, and control of the complications resulting from, diabetes among Urban Indians.Permits the Secretary, acting through the IHS, to enter into contracts with, and make grants to, Urban Indian Organizations, 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.Converts the Director of IHS into an Assistant Secretary of Indian Health in the Public Health Service of the HHS.Revises requirements for automated management information systems. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to enter into contracts, agreements, or joint ventures with other federal agencies, states, private and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of enhancing information technology in Indian health programs 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 the IHS, to: (1) encourage Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations to develop tribal plans, Urban Indian Organizations to develop local plans, and all such groups 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 the 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 the Indian Youth Program. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the 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 the 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 disorder programs. Directs the Secretary, acting through the IHS, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Urban Indian Organizations, 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 Disorder Task Force.Combines certain demonstration projects regarding child sex abuse into permanent programs for: (1) victims of sexual abuse who are Indian children or children in an Indian household; and (2) perpetrators of child sex abuse who are Indians or members of an Indian household. Requires the use of funding to develop and provide community education and prevention programs.Replaces requirements for mental health research with requirements for behavioral health research.Extends the authorization of appropriations through FY2017 for behavioral health programs.Revises reporting requirements and requirements on regulations, including negotiated rulemaking.Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan explaining the manner and schedule, by title and section, for implementation of this Act. Revises requirements on the eligibility of California Indians for health services.Revises requirements on health services for ineligible persons.Requires the Secretary, acting through the IHS, to provide services and benefits for Indians in Montana in a manner consistent with the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in McNabb for McNabb v. Bowen.Authorizes the IHS to provide certain services according to eligibility criteria in effect on September 15, 1987, until IHS submits to specified congressional committees a budget request reflecting the increased costs associated with HHS's proposed final rule and the request has been included in an appropriations Act enacted into law.Establishes the National Bi-Partisan 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 Indian Health Program or a health program of an Urban Indian Organization 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.Authorizes appropriations through FY2017 to carry out specified miscellaneous requirements.(Sec. 102) Amends 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. Authorizes appropriations.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 the IHS, an Indian Tribe, a Tribal Organization, or an Urban Indian Organization or through referral under the contract health service.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 Technology Advisory Group.Requires states to establish a process for consultation with the tribal or urban Indian health programs on matters relating to Medicaid that are likely to have a direct effect on Indians or Indian health programs.(Sec. 207) Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of an Indian health program, 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 Indian health programs, Indian tribes, tribal organizations and urban Indian organizations 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 Indian health program participating in the network, to choose the Indian health program as the primary care provider. Sets forth requirements for MCEs with significant Indian enrollees and for Indian MCEs.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) the Indian Health Service 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.

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universities authorizes appropriations requirements matching grants tribes health professional scholarship programs allows funds scholarship costs source instead nonfederal sources requires scholarship recipient agree discriminate providing health care individuals basis payment title schip social security act indian health service program requirements extends program discretionary basis hhs agencies available allows high school program revises requirements programs continuing education allowances authorizes secretary provide programs allowances transition including licensing board certification examination technical assistance fulfilling service obligations enable health professionals employed indian health program leave duty stations period time year professional consultation refresher training repeals set aside postdoctoral training allows extension continuing education allowances health professionals employed indian health program revises community health representative program requirements renames health paraprofessionals community health representatives requirements requires secretary health_and_human_services 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 use payments received 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 indian health program renames nursing grant program eliminates program grants establish nursing school clinics makes tribal cultural orientation history education ihs employees mandatory requires education describe use place tribes ihs area revises requirements indians medicine program revises health training programs community colleges requirements require grant receiving community colleges relationship hospital mere access agree provide indian preference program applicants establishes funding priority tribal colleges universities exist repeals authority additional incentives health professionals extends retention bonuses health professional doctors nurses employed programs 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 indian health program allows education leading advanced degrees certifications nursing public health currently master degree allows obligated service revises 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 corps scholars qualifying time equivalent limitations ihs serving commissioned corps officer 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 indian health programs instead ihs requires secretary coordinate maximum extent practicable 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 costs 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 urban indian organizations eligible intertribal consortia conduct epidemiological studies indian communities declares epidemiology center operated grantee shall treated public health authority 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 including 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 long term care revises requirements program authorizes secretary establish standards service provided stringent required state service provided repeals prohibition use funds cash payments room board construction nursing facility services requires secretary acting ihs indian tribes urban indian organizations 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 source food chain nuclear resource development requires include members secretary health_and_human_services director indian_health_service designees 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 tribal organizations 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 service indian tribes consideration priority system years requires secretary submit congress report describes comprehensive national ranked list health care facilities needs service indian tribes developed revises requirements safe water sanitary waste disposal facilities simply 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 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 service 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 funds 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 projects requirements changes permitting use ihs funds match funds requiring secretary promulgate regulations later year act enactment review approval applications projects requiring secretary priority demonstration projects located specified authorizes federal agencies addition bureau_of_indian_affairs bia transfer cost land improvements ihs provision health care services authorizes secretary accept land improvements purposes 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 advanced 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 requirements revises requirements 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 service 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 tribal organizations urban indian organizations 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 tribal organizations urban indian organizations 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 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 act 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 urban indian organizations allows single advance payment secretary determined organization capable administering payments case payments semiannual quarterly payments way reimbursement revises reports records requirements extending reporting period quarterly semi annual requires report include minimum set data uniformly defined elements requires secretary acting service report congress health status urban indians services provided indians areas unmet needs delivery health services urban indians modifies cost annual audits specify independent financial audits currently private audits 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 urban indian organizations direct loans guarantees loans health care facility construction changes urban health programs makes permanent oklahoma_city demonstration projects continuing treatment allocation resources coordination care subjects projects requirements definitions sets september final effective date grants contracts administration alcohol programs transferred ihs establishes consultation requirements urban indian organizations authorizes secretary acting ihs fund construction operation residential treatment centers state meeting certain criteria demonstrate provision alcohol substance abuse treatment services urban indian youth culturally competent residential setting authorizes secretary grants urban indian organizations prevention treatment control complications resulting diabetes urban indians permits secretary acting ihs enter contracts grants urban indian organizations employment indians health service providers authorizes appropriations fy2017 health services urban indians converts director ihs assistant secretary public_health_service requirements automated management information systems authorizes secretary acting assistant secretary enter contracts agreements joint ventures federal agencies states private nonprofit organizations purpose enhancing information technology indian health programs 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 urban indian organizations develop local plans groups 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 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 tribal organizations revises requirements fetal alcohol disorder programs directs secretary acting ihs indian tribes urban indian organizations develop provide services early childhood intervention projects supportive services includes centers_for_disease_control_and_prevention fetal alcohol disorder task force combines certain demonstration projects child sex abuse permanent programs victims sexual abuse indian children children indian household perpetrators child sex abuse indians members indian household requires use funding develop provide community education prevention programs replaces requirements mental health research requirements behavioral health research extends authorization appropriations fy2017 behavioral health programs revises reporting requirements requirements regulations including negotiated rulemaking requires secretary submit congress plan explaining manner schedule title section implementation act revises requirements eligibility california indians health services revises requirements health services ineligible persons requires secretary acting ihs provide services benefits indians montana manner consistent decision court_of_appeals ninth_circuit authorizes ihs provide certain services according eligibility criteria effect september ihs submits specified congressional committees budget request reflecting increased costs associated hhs proposed final rule request included appropriations act enacted law establishes national partisan indian health care commission 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 authorizes appropriations fy2017 carry specified miscellaneous amends federal law authorizing sanitation facilities amends direct secretary establish authorizes appropriations 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 referral contract health service 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 tribal urban indian health programs matters relating medicaid likely direct effect indians indian health authorizes secretary case indian health program waive sanctions health provider sanctions impose hardship individuals entitled benefits enrolled federal health care program deems specified transfers indian health programs indian tribes tribal organizations urban indian organizations treated remuneration allows indians enrolled non indian medicaid managed care entity indian health program participating network choose indian health program primary care provider sets forth requirements significant indian enrollees indian 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 indian_health_service providing services covered federal tort claims requires secretary report annually enrollment health status indians receiving items services health benefit programs


Summary: Amends the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environment and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy.

amends morris udall scholarship excellence national environment native american public policy act authorize appropriations training tribal leadership management policy


Summary: Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from approving any new tribal-state compacts for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act until two years after enactment of this Act.

prohibits secretary interior approving new tribal state compacts gaming indian gaming regulatory act years enactment act


Summary: Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Reaffirmation Act - Reaffirms federal recognition and the rights and privileges of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Extends to the Band eligibility for all federal services and benefits available to other federally recognized Indian tribes. Designates the service area for the delivery of federal services to the Band and to other Indians in the area of Cheboygan County, Michigan.Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land in Cheboygan County, Michigan, and in other geographic areas and to hold such lands in trust for the benefit of the Band.Sets forth criteria and evidentiary requirements for determining the initial membership of the Band. Requires the Band to provide a copy of its base roll to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs within one year after the enactment of this Act.Provides that the initial constitution of the Band shall be the constitution submitted by the Band to the Office of Federal Acknowledgment on May 2, 2005.

ottawa federal recognition rights privileges ottawa chippewa_indians michigan extends band eligibility federal services benefits available federally recognized indian tribes designates service area delivery federal services band indians area michigan directs secretary interior acquire land michigan geographic areas hold lands trust benefit band sets forth criteria evidentiary requirements determining initial membership band requires band provide copy base roll assistant secretary indian_affairs year enactment act provides initial constitution band shall constitution submitted band


Summary: Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to except certain newly acquired lands taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of an Indian Tribe from the prohibition on gaming on such lands when the Secretary, after consultation with the Tribe and appropriate state and local officials, including officials of other nearby tribes, determines that a gaming establishment on those newly acquired lands would be in the best interest of the Tribe and its members and would not be detrimental to the surrounding community.

amends indian gaming regulatory act certain newly acquired lands taken trust secretary interior benefit indian tribe prohibition gaming lands secretary consultation tribe appropriate state local officials including officials nearby tribes determines gaming establishment newly acquired lands best interest tribe members detrimental surrounding community


Summary: Native American Home Ownership Opportunity Act of 2007 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend through FY2012: (1) the authorization of appropriations to the Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund for loan guarantees for Native American housing; and (2) the limitation on the outstanding aggregate principal amount of such loans.

opportunity act amends housing_and_community_development_act extend fy2012 authorization appropriations loan guarantees native american housing limitation outstanding aggregate principal loans


Summary: Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to remove the blood quantum requirement for determining the membership of descendants of members of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indian Tribe.

amends ysleta del sur pueblo alabama coushatta indian tribes texas restoration act remove blood requirement determining membership descendants members


Summary: Amends the Morris K.Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to: (1) require the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation to award grants to the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona to develop resources to train Native American and Alaska Native professionals in health care and public policy; (2) revise requirements regarding limitations on program priorities and require that at least 50% of the funds provided to the Center be spent for Native American education and policy activities; (3) provide for the Foundation to pay a limited amount for official reception and representation expenses; (4) prohibit any committee or group organized by the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in connection with the services it provides pursuant to the Act from being subject to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, provided that the committee or group is neither established nor controlled by another agency of the executive branch; and (5) instruct the Foundation to carry out the Act's provisions without regard to federal law governing appointments in the competitive service.

amends require morris udall scholarship excellence award grants develop resources train native american alaska_native professionals health care public policy revise requirements limitations program priorities require funds provided center spent native american education policy activities provide foundation pay limited official reception representation expenses prohibit committee group organized connection services provides pursuant act subject provisions federal_advisory_committee_act provided committee group established controlled agency executive branch instruct foundation carry act provisions regard federal law governing appointments competitive service


Summary: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the Indian employment tax credit; and (2) accelerated depreciation of business property used on Indian reservations.

amends internal revenue code permanent indian employment tax credit accelerated depreciation business property indian reservations


Summary: Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama. Restores federal rights and privileges abrogated by earlier statutes. Approves and ratifies the cession to the United States of all historical tribal lands of the Band. Extinguishes all specified claims against the United States, a state or local government, or any other person or entity, by the Band arising subsequent to such cession, and based upon any interest in or right involving the land. Prohibits the Band from using its federal recognition to assert any historical land claim. Transfers all interests in lands held by the Band upon enactment of this Act to the United States, to be held in trust for the benefit of the Band.

indians recognition act extends federal recognition associated services benefits alabama restores federal rights privileges earlier statutes approves ratifies united_states historical tribal lands band extinguishes specified claims united_states state local government person entity band arising subsequent based interest right involving land prohibits band federal recognition assert historical land claim transfers interests lands held band enactment act united_states held trust benefit band


Summary: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an Indian tribal government, in the case of a facility that uses a renewable energy resource to produce electricity in which such government has an ownership interest in the gross sales from such facility, to assign to any other person who has such an ownership interest in such facility any portion of the production from the facility that would, but for this Act, be allocated to such government for purposes of the renewable electricity production credit. Makes such amendment applicable to electricity produced and sold after December 31, 2006.

amends internal revenue code allow indian tribal government case facility uses renewable energy resource produce electricity government ownership interest gross sales facility assign person ownership interest facility portion production facility act allocated government purposes renewable electricity production credit makes amendment applicable electricity produced sold december


Summary: Provides for the consideration of a petition for federal recognition as an Indian tribe by the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina. Expresses the sense of the Congress that review of such petition should not unnecessarily delay review of petitions awaiting active consideration.

provides consideration petition federal recognition indian tribe lumbee indians robeson adjoining counties north_carolina expresses sense congress review petition unnecessarily delay review petitions awaiting active consideration


Summary: Muscogee Nation of Florida Federal Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition to the Muscogee Nation of Florida (the Nation). Makes the Nation and its members eligible for all services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized Indian tribes. Considers, for the purpose of the delivery of federal services to members, the service area of the Nation to be: (1) the community of Bruce in Walton County, Florida; and (2) an area in Florida in which members reside that is bordered on the west by the Escambia River and on the east by the St. Marks River. Declares that the constitution and bylaws of the Nation shall be the constitution and bylaws of the Nation's Tribal Council dated January 21, 2001 (including amendments). Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, upon receipt of a written request of the Tribal Council, to hold a referendum for members to adopt a new constitution and bylaws. Specifies the role and duties of the Tribal Council. Requires that the membership roll of the Nation be determined in accordance with the membership criteria established by the ordinance of the Nation numbered 04-01-100 and dated February 7, 2004.

muscogee nation florida_federal recognition act extends federal recognition muscogee_nation florida nation makes nation members eligible services benefits provided federal government federally recognized indian tribes considers purpose delivery federal services members service area nation community bruce walton_county florida area florida members reside bordered west escambia_river east declares constitution bylaws nation shall constitution bylaws nation tribal_council dated january including amendments instructs secretary interior receipt written request tribal_council hold referendum members adopt new constitution bylaws specifies role duties tribal_council requires membership roll nation determined accordance membership criteria established ordinance nation numbered dated february


Summary: Tribal Government Pension Equality Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the definition of governmental plan with respect to the treatment of the Indian tribal pension plans. Makes the amendments made by this Act effective as if included in section 906 (Treatment of certain pension plans of Indian tribal governments) of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

amends internal revenue code employee retirement income security act modify definition governmental plan respect treatment indian tribal pension plans makes amendments act effective included section treatment certain pension plans indian tribal governments pension protection act


Summary: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to proclaim as reservation for the benefit of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians a specified parcel of land in Michigan now held in trust by the United States for the Tribe.States that the Secretary's proclamation shall be pursuant to section 7 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (relating to new Indian reservations), and shall be deemed effective as of April 19, 1988.

directs secretary interior proclaim reservation benefit marie_tribe chippewa_indians specified parcel land michigan held trust united_states tribe states secretary proclamation shall pursuant section act june relating new indian reservations shall deemed effective april


Summary: Directs the Secretary of State to establish in the Department of State a pilot program with the Miccosukee Indian tribe (Florida) for the purpose of exploring the development of more appropriate and effective arrangements for managing relations between the federal government and Indian tribes. Vests in the Secretary of State the authorities and responsibilities currently vested in any federal official or agency with respect to managing relations between the federal government and the Miccosukee Indian tribe.

directs secretary state establish department_of_state pilot program indian tribe florida purpose exploring development appropriate effective arrangements managing relations federal government indian tribes vests secretary state authorities responsibilities currently vested federal official agency respect managing relations federal government indian tribe


Summary: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to take lands identified as alternative lands in the Settlement of Land Claim (the agreement between the Bay Mills Indian Community and the Governor of Michigan executed on August 23, 2002, including the document titled Addendum to Settlement of Land Claim, executed on November 13, 2007) into trust for the benefit of the Community within 30 days after the Secretary has: (1) received a title insurance policy for the alternative lands that shows that such lands are not subject to mortgages, liens, deeds of trust, options to purchase, or other security interests; and (2) confirmed that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 has been complied with regarding the trust acquisition of the property.Provides for the alternative lands to become part of the Community's reservation immediately upon attaining trust status. Requires the alternative lands to be taken into trust as part of the settlement and extinguishment of the Community's Charlotte Beach land claims and to be deemed lands obtained in settlement of a land claim within the meaning of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.Extinguishes, concurrent with the Secretary taking the alternative lands into trust, all claims by the Community: (1) to the Charlotte Beach lands; or (2) against the United States, the State of Michigan, or any other person or entity based on or relating to claims to such lands, whether based on aboriginal or recognized title. Approves and ratifies the Settlement of Land Claim, which shall be enforceable by the Community or the Governorn according to its terms. Vests exclusive jurisdiction over any enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

requires secretary interior lands identified alternative lands settlement land claim agreement governor michigan executed august including document titled addendum settlement land claim executed november trust benefit community days secretary received title insurance policy alternative lands shows lands subject mortgages liens deeds trust options purchase security interests confirmed national_environmental_policy_act complied trust acquisition property provides alternative lands community reservation immediately attaining trust status requires alternative lands taken trust settlement extinguishment community land claims deemed lands obtained settlement land claim meaning indian gaming regulatory act extinguishes concurrent secretary taking alternative lands trust claims community lands united_states person entity based relating claims lands based aboriginal recognized title approves ratifies settlement land claim shall enforceable according terms vests exclusive jurisdiction enforcement action western_district michigan


Summary: Amends the Small Business Act to authorize a Small Business Development Center in an eligible state to apply for an additional grant to be used solely to provide services to assist with outreach, development, and enhancement on Indian lands of small business startups and expansions owned by Indian tribe members, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Defines an "eligible state" as a state that has a combined population of Indian tribe members, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians that comprises at least 1% of the state's total population. Prohibits any applicant from receiving more than $300,000 in such grants for one fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out such additional assistance for FY2008-FY2010. Requires a Small Business Development Center receiving such a grant to request the advice of the local tribal organization on how best to provide assistance and where to locate satellite centers to provide such assistance.

amends small_business_act authorize small business development center eligible state apply additional grant solely provide services assist outreach development enhancement indian lands small business startups expansions owned indian tribe members native hawaiians defines eligible state state combined population indian tribe members alaska_natives native hawaiians comprises state total population prohibits applicant receiving grants fiscal year authorizes appropriations carrying additional assistance fy2008 fy2010 requires small business development center receiving grant request advice local tribal organization best provide assistance locate satellite centers provide assistance


Summary: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse to each of the Boise Forte Band, Fond du Lac Band, Grand Portage Band, Leech Lake Band, Mille Lacs Band, and White Earth Band the amount of funds plus interest earned to the date of reimbursement that each Band contributed for payment of litigation expenses and expert witness fees associated with the litigation of Docket No. 19 and Docket No. 188 before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Provides for reimbursement to a Band only for litigation expenses and expert witness fees incurred prior to June 22, 1999. Requires that a Band's claim for reimbursement of expended funds be certified by the Band as being unreimbursed to it from other funding sources. Requires the Secretary to review the claims and determine if the fees and expenses are properly documented and incurred in the litigation of the claims before the Court in Docket Nos. 19 and 188. Requires the Bands to update their membership rolls to include all living enrolled members. Subjects the membership rolls to the review and approval of the Secretary. Sets forth provisions for the: (1) division of the judgment funds; and (2) development of separate tribal plans for the use and distribution of such funds.

authorizes secretary interior reimburse funds plus interest earned date reimbursement band contributed payment litigation expenses expert witness fees associated litigation docket docket provides reimbursement band litigation expenses expert witness fees incurred prior june requires band claim reimbursement expended funds certified band unreimbursed funding sources requires secretary review claims determine fees expenses properly documented incurred litigation claims requires bands update membership rolls include living enrolled members subjects membership rolls review approval secretary sets forth provisions division judgment funds development separate tribal plans use distribution funds


Summary: Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley Water Rights Settlement Act - Approves, ratifies, and confirms, the agreement entitled the "Agreement to Establish the Relative Water Rights of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and the Upstream Water Users, East Fork Owyhee River," except as specified in this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to hold tribal water rights in trust. Requires the Tribes to enact a water code to administer such rights. Establishes the Shoneshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights Development Fund and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Operation and Maintenance Fund.

shoshone-paiute_tribes duck valley water rights settlement act approves ratifies confirms agreement entitled agreement establish relative water rights shoshone paiute tribes duck valley indian reservation specified act directs secretary interior hold tribal water rights trust requires tribes enact water code administer rights establishes tribes operation maintenance fund


Summary: Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) Recognizes the village of Alexander Creek located in Alaska as an eligible Native village. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish an Alexander Creek account, the funds of which shall be available to Alexander Creek, Incorporated for bidding on and purchasing property sold at public sale. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to enter into negotiations to attempt to conclude a land exchange to acquire the surface estate in lands not within any conservation system unit from the State of Alaska or the Mantanuska-Susitna Borough to enable Alexander Creek to select additional public lands within Alexander Creek's original withdrawal area in Alaska. Requires the: (1) the account's initial balance to be the fair market value of the surface estate of certain deficiency selections made by Alexander Creek; and (2) subsurface estate to the lands conveyed to Alexander Creek to be conveyed to Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated. Deems Alexander Creek, upon certification by the Secretary of the appraisal described in this Act, to have accepted the terms of this Act in lieu of any other land entitlement it could have received pursuant to ANCSA. Declares that such acceptance shall satisfy all claims of Alexander Creek against the United States. Deems any land conveyed to Alexander Creek pursuant to this Act to be a conveyance pursuant to ANCSA.

amends alaska native claims settlement act ancsa recognizes village alexander_creek located alaska eligible native village directs secretary treasury establish alexander_creek account funds shall available alexander_creek incorporated bidding purchasing property sold public sale directs secretary interior secretary enter negotiations attempt conclude land exchange acquire surface estate lands conservation system unit state alaska borough enable alexander_creek select additional public lands alexander_creek original withdrawal area alaska requires account initial balance fair market value surface estate certain deficiency selections alexander_creek subsurface estate lands conveyed alexander_creek conveyed cook inlet region incorporated certification secretary appraisal described act accepted terms act lieu land entitlement received pursuant ancsa declares acceptance shall satisfy claims alexander_creek united_states deems land conveyed alexander_creek pursuant act conveyance pursuant ancsa


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: Tribal Economic Development and Infrastructure Support Act of 2007 - Amends the Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) authorize Indian tribes to issue notes and other obligations (guarantee loans) to finance community and economic development activities; and (2) require at least 70% of the aggregate funds received by an Indian tribe or tribally designated housing entity as a result of a guarantee under such Act to be used for the support of activities that benefit low-income Indian families on Indian reservations and other Indian areas.

infrastructure support act amends native american housing self determination act authorize indian tribes issue notes obligations guarantee loans finance community economic development activities require aggregate funds received indian tribe tribally designated housing entity result guarantee act support activities benefit low income indian families indian reservations indian areas


Summary: Limitation of Tribal Gambling to Existing Tribal Lands Act of 2007 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to limit the Indian land eligible for gaming. Revises the prohibition against gaming on lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe after October 17, 1988, by repealing the exception to such prohibition for lands taken into trust as part of: (1) a settlement of a land claim; (2) the initial reservation of an Indian tribe acknowledged by the Secretary under the federal acknowledgment process; or (3) the restoration of lands for an Indian tribe that is restored to federal recognition. Requires joint approval by the legislature of a state as well as by its governor of gaming on other lands otherwise excepted from the prohibition when the Secretary determines that a gaming establishment on newly acquired lands would be in the best interest of the Indian tribe and its members, and would not be detrimental to the surrounding community.

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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.

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