{"id":14249,"date":"2021-07-20T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T16:16:53","slug":"house-subcommittee-takes-testimony-on-indian-health-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/20\/house-subcommittee-takes-testimony-on-indian-health-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"House subcommittee takes testimony on Indian health bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxqUa-K5H6o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">House Committee on Natural Resources: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/YxqUa-K5H6o>Remote Legislative Hearing &#8211; H.R.442 and H.R.3496  &#8211; July 20, 2021<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">House subcommittee takes testimony on Indian health bills<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, July 20, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/subcommittees\/subcommittee-for-indigenous-peoples-of-the-united-states\">House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States<\/a> is meeting on Tuesday for a legislative hearing.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTwo Indian health bills <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/scip-remote-legislative-hearing_july-20-2021>are on the agenda<\/a>. They follow:\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\n&#8226; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/442\">H.R.442<\/a>, the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Land Transfer Act. The bill authorizes the transfer of land in Alaska from the <a href=https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/>Indian Health Service<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/searhc.org\"> Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium<\/a>. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8226; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3496\">H.R.3496<\/a>, the Urban Indian Health Providers Facilities Improvement Act. The bill ensures that urban Indian health providers can use existing resources to <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/05\/25\/bipartisan-bill-brings-long-overdue-boost-to-urban-indian-health-providers\/\">upgrade, renovate and expand their facilities<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe hearing takes place at 12pm Eastern and will be live-streamed. The witness list includes:\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-4>\r\nSonya M. Tetnowski (H.R.3496) [Testimony: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20\/tetnowski072021.pdf>PDF<\/a>]<BR>\r\nBoard President-Elect<BR>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncuih.org\/\">National Council of Urban Indian Health<\/a>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nMichael E. Douglas (H.R.442) [Testimony: <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20\/douglas072021.pdf>PDF<\/a>]<BR>\r\nSenior Vice President &#038; Chief Legal Officer<BR>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/searhc.org\">Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/scip-remote-legislative-hearing_july-20-2021>Remote Legislative Hearing<\/a> (July 20, 2021)\r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20\/scip.jpg\" alt=\"House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States is meeting for a legislative hearing.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,13,1,14],"tags":[869,78,5,1821,1822,49,48,210,1820,367,51,1615,1819,6],"class_list":["post-14249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-117th","tag-alaska","tag-coronavirus","tag-h-r-3496","tag-h-r-442","tag-hnrc","tag-house","tag-ihs","tag-michael-douglas","tag-ncuih","tag-scip","tag-seahrc","tag-sonya-tetnowski","tag-urban-indians","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20\/scip.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-3HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}