PUBLIC LAW 99-117—OCT. 7, 1985
Public Law 99-117 99th Congress
99 STAT. 491
An Act
To amend various provisions of the Public Health Service Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) this Act may be cited as the "Health Services Amendments of 1985". (b) Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Public Health Service Act.
Oct. 7, 1985 [S. 1689] Health Services Amendments of 1985. 42 USC 201 note.
42 USC 201 note.
HANSEN S DISEASE PROGRAM
SEC. 2. (a) Section 320 is amended to read as follows:
42 USC 247e.
"HANSEN'S DISEASE PROGRAM
"SEC. 320. (a) The Secretary— "(1) shall provide care and treatment (including outpatient care) without charge at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana, to any person suffering from Hansen's disease who needs and requests care and treatment for that disease; and "(2) may provide for the care and treatment (including outpatient care) of Hansen's disease without charge for any person who requests such care and treatment. "(b) The Secretary shall make payments to the Board of Health of Hawaii for the care and treatment (including outpatient care) in its facilities of persons suffering from Hansen's disease at a rate, determined from time to time by the Secretary, which shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, be approximately equal to the operating cost per patient of those facilities, except that the rate determined by the Secretary shall not be greater than the comparable operating cost per Hansen's disease patient at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana.". (b) The Public Health Service Facility in Carville, Louisiana, shall be known and designated as the "Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center". Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, record, or other paper of the United States to such facility shall be held to be a reference to the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center.
Louisiana. Hawaii.
LIMITED APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL PAY TO PHYSICIANS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSIONED CORPS
SEC. 3. (a) Section 208(a)(2) is amended— (1) by striking out "Commissioned" and inserting in lieu thereof "(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), commissioned"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
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42 USC 210.
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