{"id":403652,"date":"2026-02-04T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=403652"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:44:41","slug":"testimony-dayna-seymour-of-colville-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/02\/04\/testimony-dayna-seymour-of-colville-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony: Dayna Seymour of Colville Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Testimony: Dayna Seymour of Colville Tribes<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, February 4, 2026<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

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<\/p>\r\nThe following is the written testimony of Dayna Seymour, Health and Human Services Chair for the Business Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation<\/a>. \r\n

<\/p>\r\n Seymour appears before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> at a Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S.2098, S.1055 & S.699<\/a> on February 4, 2026. Her testimony focuses on S.699<\/a>, the Purchased and Referred Care Improvement Act of 2025<\/a>.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nS.699 requires the Indian Health Service<\/a> (IHS) to reimburse tribal patients for care sought outside of IHS in a timely manner. Data currently shows the IHS does not always meet a 30-day timeline established by the Indian Health Care Improvement Act<\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nIn her testimony, Seymour also expresses support for S.1055<\/a>, the Indian Health Service Emergency Claims Parity Act<\/a>. The bill extends the reporting deadline for IHS patients who seek emergency care outside of the IHS system from 72 hours to 15 days.\r\n

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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\nLegislative Hearing to receive testimony on S.2098, S.1055 & S.699<\/a> (February 4, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dayna Seymour from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation testifies before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on February 4, 2026.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403554,"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":[5366,1437,7102,248,506,210,7099,7098,7100,213,7101,314],"class_list":["post-403652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-colville","tag-dayna-seymour","tag-hhs","tag-ihcia","tag-ihs","tag-s-1055","tag-s-2098","tag-s-699","tag-scia","tag-washignton","tag-washington","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/04\/Testimony-Dayna-Seymour-02.04.26_page-0001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1H0w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403652","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=403652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403661,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403652\/revisions\/403661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}