H.R. 4360: Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act

108th Congress · introduced 2004-05-13 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

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Where it came from: introduced 2004-05-13 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act

Plain summary

Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act - Requires that $250 million of foreign aid funds appropriated under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 be made available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make allotments to States for eligible providers for unreimbursable costs incurred by providing emergency health care services to: (1) undocumented aliens; (2) aliens who have been paroled into the United States at a U.S. port of entry for the purpose of receiving eligible services; and (3) Mexican citizens permitted to enter the United States for not more than 72 hours under the authority of biometric machine readable border crossing identification card.

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Official text

Country of Origin Healthcare Accountability Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1] · 0 cosponsors

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-108hr4360.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/108/hr>

Record fed-us-cong108-hr4360 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108