To require a study of membership criteria for federally recognized Indian tribes.

SA 4029. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1200, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act to revise and extend the Act; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

On page 347, after line 24, add the following:

SEC. 104. GAO STUDY OF MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA FOR FEDERALLY
RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBES.

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall
conduct a study of membership criteria for federally
recognized Indian tribes, including--
(1) the number of federally recognized Indian tribes in
existence on the date on which the study is conducted;
(2) the number of those Indian tribes that use blood
quantum as a criterion for membership in the Indian tribe and
the importance assigned to that criterion;
(3) the percentage of members of federally recognized
Indian tribes that possesses degrees of Indian blood of--
(A) \1/4\;
(B) \1/8\; and
(C) \1/16\; and
(4) the variance in wait times and rationing of health care
services within the Service between federally recognized
Indian Tribes that use blood quantum as a criterion for
membership and those Indian Tribes that do not use blood
quantum as such a criterion.
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