To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 18, 2014)
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in developing methodology for designating areas with limited access to goods and services generally only found in urban areas (e.g., advanced medical care) as frontier and remote (FAR) areas, to: (1) designate as a FAR area any area in Hawaii or Alaska that the state designates as rural for a federal program, and (2) include, in addition to otherwise defined levels of remoteness for FAR areas, a level for areas with unique characteristics that should qualify those areas to be designated as FAR areas.
What just happenedSep 19, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseSep 18, 2014
- Sep 19, 2014Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Sep 18, 2014IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Sep 18, 2014IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 18, 2014IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House