H.R. 5592 · 113th Congress
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Introduced
- 2014-09-18
- Latest action
- 2014-09-19 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Summary
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.