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 99 STAT. 546

PUBLIC LAW 99-129—OCT. 22, 1985 STUDY OF THE DEUVERY OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS

State and local governments. Report.

SEC. 225. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall arrange, in accordance with subsection (c), for the conduct of a study of the delivery of inpatient and outpatient health care services to homeless individuals. Such study shall include— (1) an evaluation of whether eligibility requirements in existing health care programs prevent homeless individuals from receiving health care services; (2) an evaluation of the efficiency of the delivery of health care services to homeless individuals; and (3) recommendations for activities by Federal, State, and local governments and private entities that would improve the availability of health care service delivery to homeless individuals. (b) The Secretary shall report the results of the study required by subsection (a) to the Committee on Labor and Humsm Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives not later than September 30, 1986. (c)(1) The Secretary shall request the National Academy of Sciences, acting through the Institute of Medicine, to conduct the study required by subsection (a) under an arrangement whereby the actual expenses incurred by the Academy directly related to the conduct of such study will be paid by the Secretary. If the Academy agrees to such request, the Secretary shall enter into such an agreement with the Academy. (2) If the National Academy of Sciences declines the Secretary's request to conduct such study under such arrangement, then the Secretary, after consultation with the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, shall enter into a similar arrangement with another appropriate public or nonprofit entity to conduct such study. RECOVERY OF ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS

42 USC

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SEC. 226. (a) Section 2115 is amended to read as follows: "RECOVERY

42 USC 2681.

42 USC 2689J.

"SEC. 2115. (a) If any facility with respect to which funds have been paid under the Community Mental Health Centers Act (as such Act was in effect prior to October 1, 1981) is, at any time within twenty years after the completion of remodeling, construction, or expansion or after the date of its acquisition— "(1) sold or transferred to any entity (A) which would not have been qualified to file an application under section 222 of such Act (as such section wsus in effect prior to October 1, 1981) or (B) which is disapproved as a transferee by the State mental health agency or by another entity designated by the chief executive officer of the State, or "(2) ceases to be used by a community mental health center in the provision of comprehensive mental health services, the United States shall be entitled to recover from the transferor, transferee, or owner of the facility, the base amount prescribed by subsection (c)(1) plus the interest (if any) prescribed by subsection (c)(2).

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