§29 [Public Health Service Act; amendment.]

Summary

Updates wording across the Public Health Service Act to reflect Hawaii’s statehood and to change how Alaska is treated for some funding rules. It removes Hawaii from lists that once named it as a territory and replaces any phrase like “Territory of Hawaii” with “Hawaii.” It also deletes a phrase in one health section that mentioned territories and the District of Columbia. The law also changes hospital-construction allotment rules. It drops a fixed 50 percent allotment rule that applied to Hawaii. It replaces “continental United States” with “United States” and then defines “United States” for these rules as the fifty States and the District of Columbia. For Alaska, the law says Alaska gets a 50 percent allotment until the Department of Commerce has one full year of per‑capita income data for Alaska, and later will use one‑ or two‑year data until a full three‑year period is available. It also removes Hawaii from another place that listed States.