§29 [public Health Service Act; Amendment.]

Summary

Changes several parts of the Public Health Service Act so Hawaii and Alaska are treated differently in names and money shares. It removes Hawaii from one list that defines "State." It takes out the words listing "Territory" and "the District of Columbia" in the leprosy rules and changes "Territory of Hawaii" to "Hawaii." It also removes "Territory of Hawaii" from the disease-control rules on holding people to stop disease spread. It changes how hospital-construction money shares are set. It removes a rule that gave Hawaii a 50% share. It replaces wording like "continental United States" with "United States" and then says that, for those rules, "United States" means the fifty States and the District of Columbia. Until the Department of Commerce has one full year of per-person income data for Alaska, Alaska gets a 50% share and is not counted as part of the "United States" for those decisions. After that, but before three years of Alaska data exist, decisions must use the one- or two-year data that are available.