Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Improving Tribal Cultural Training for Providers Act of 2024”.
Improving Tribal Cultural Training for Providers Act of 2024
A BILL
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to ensure that certain employees, providers, and volunteers associated with the Indian Health Service receive educational training in the history and culture of the Tribes served by such persons, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Tribal culture and history
Section 113 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1616f) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
by striking “a program” and inserting “an annual mandatory training program”; and
by striking “appropriate employees of the Service” and inserting “employees of the Service, locum tenens medical providers, health care volunteers, and other contracted employees who work at Service hospitals or other Service units and whose employment requires regular direct patient access”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(c) Requirement To complete training program—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning on the date of enactment of the Improving Tribal Cultural Training for Providers Act of 2024, each employee or provider described in subsection (a) who enters into a contract with the Service shall, as a condition of employment, annually participate in and complete the program established under subsection (a).”