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 PUBLIC LAW 103-400—OCT. 22, 1994 108 STAT. 4169 Public Law 103-400 103d Congress An Act To authorize and encourage the President to conclude an agreement with Mexico to establish a United States-Mexico Border Health Conunission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act". SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF BORDER HEALTH COMMISSION. The President is authorized and encouraged to conclude an agreement with Mexico to establish a binational commission to be known as the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission. SEC. 3. DUTIES. It should be the duty of the Commission— (1) to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment in the United States-Mexico Border Area for the purposes of identify- ing, evaluating, preventing, and resolving health problems and potential health problems that affect the general population of the area; (2) to implement the actions recommended by the needs assessment through— (A) assisting in the coordination and implementation of the efforts of public and private entities to prevent and resolve such health problems, and (B) assisting in the coordination and implementation of efforts of public and private entities to educate such population, in a culturally competent manner, concerning such health problems; and (3) to formulate recommendations to the Governments of the United States and Mexico concerning a fair and reasonable method by which the government of one country could reimburse a public or private entity in the other country for the cost of a health care service that the entity furnishes to a citizen of the first country who is unable, through insurance or otherwise, to pay for the service. SEC. 4. OTHER AUTHORIZED FUNCTIONS. In addition to the duties described in section 3, the Commission should be authorized to perform the following functions as the Commission determines to be appropriate- CD to conduct or support investigations, research, or studies designed to identify, study, and monitor, on an on-going basis. Oct. 22, 1994 [S. 1225] United States- Mexico Border Health Commission Act. State listing. 22 USC 290n note. 22 USC 290n. 22 USC 290n-l.

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