§5395 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

Protects tribal funding and the U.S. trust duty. No part of this law can cut money for tribal programs under any federal law. A tribe alleging a compact or funding agreement violates this may use section 5331. The Indian Health Service must not bill Indians who may be able to pay, nor make tribes bill them.

Title 25, §5395

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(a)Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to limit or reduce in any way the funding for any program, project, or activity serving an Indian tribe under this or other applicable Federal law. Any Indian tribe that alleges that a compact or funding agreement is in violation of this section may apply the provisions of section 5331 of this title.

(b)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to diminish in any way the trust responsibility of the United States to Indian tribes and individual Indians that exists under treaties, Executive orders, or other laws and court decisions.

(c)The Indian Health Service under this chapter shall neither bill nor charge those Indians who may have the economic means to pay for services, nor require any Indian tribe to do so.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (b) and (c), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2203, known as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 458aaa–14 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§5395 Disclaimers