Sec. 3. Ensuring mandatory appropriations and health services reimbursement as part of compact-impact aid
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Section 104(e)(6) of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 ( 48 U.S.C. 1904(e)(6) ) is amended to read as follows: There is hereby authorized and appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior, for fiscal year 2013, $185,000,000 with subsequent increases as needed to address significant increases in migration for grants to any local government of the United States that demonstrates financial strain due to demands on public services by significant immigration of individuals from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, and to aid in defraying costs incurred by their governments as a result of increased demands placed on health, educational, social, or public safety services, or infrastructure related to such services due to the residence of qualified nonimmigrants.
The grants under clause
(i)shall be— awarded and administered by the Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, or any successor thereto, in accordance with regulations, policies and procedures applicable to grants so awarded and administered; and used only for health, educational, social, or public safety services, or infrastructure related to such services, specially affected by qualified nonimmigrants. For purposes of carrying out this subparagraph, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide for periodic enumerations of qualified nonimmigrants in the States and territories of the United States. The enumerations— shall be conducted at such intervals as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine; and shall be supervised by the United States Bureau of the Census or any other organization that the Secretary of the Interior selects. The Secretary of the Interior shall allocate to each of the governments of qualified affected areas, grants under clause
(i)for a fiscal year on the basis of the ratio of the number of qualified immigrants (as most recently enumerated under clause (iii)) in the respective jurisdiction to the total of such numbers for all the jurisdictions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of providing medical assistance for qualified nonimmigrants under title XIX of the Social Security Act in the case of a State or territory referred to in subparagraph (A)(i)— such individuals shall be treated in the same manner as an individual described in section 402(a)(2)(G) of Public Law 104–193 , as amended; the Federal medical assistance percentage shall be the same percentage as is applied to medical assistance for services which are received through an Indian Health Service Facility; and payments under such title for medical assistance for such individuals shall not be taken into account in applying any limitations under section 1108 of the Social Security Act. In this paragraph, term qualified nonimmigrant means a person admitted to the United States pursuant to— section 141 of the Compact of Free Association set forth in title II; or section 141 of the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Government of Palau. . Section 104(e)(6)(B) of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, as amended by subsection (a), shall apply to medical assistance for items and services furnished during or after fiscal year 2013.
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Ensuring mandatory appropriations and health services reimbursement as part of compact-impact aid
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