Sec. 101. Establishment of a State-Based American Health Security Program
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There is hereby established in the United States a State-Based American Health Security Program to be administered by the individual States in accordance with Federal standards specified in, or established under, this Act. In order for a State to be eligible to receive payment under section 604, a State shall establish a State health security program in accordance with this Act. In this Act, subject to paragraph (2), the term State means each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
If the Governor of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands certifies to the President that the legislature of the Commonwealth or territory has enacted legislation desiring that the Commonwealth or territory be included as a State under the provisions of this Act, such Commonwealth or territory shall be included as a State under this Act beginning January 1 of the first year beginning 90 days after the President receives the notification.