Resolution No. 14-05 — Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, Advance Appropriations for IHS

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Resolution No. 14-05 of the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, titled A Resolution Requesting Advance Appropriations for the Indian Health Service. The recitals state that the Council unites the Tribal governments of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations, that the Indian Health Service has long been underfunded at only 56 percent of need annually, and that final budget enactment has been late by from five days (FY 2002) to 197 days (FY 2011). It resolves that the Council requests that Congress include advance appropriations for the Indian Health Service in the Budget Resolution and the enacted appropriations bill. The certification places adoption in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in January, 2014.

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Bill John Baker
Prnapal Chief

Bil! Anoatubby
Governor

Gregory Pyle
Principal Chief

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George Tiger
Principal Chief

Leonard M. Haro
Principal Chief

The INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL of the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES

A Resolution Requesting Advance Appropriations for the Indian Health Service

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

WHEREAS,

Resolution No. 14-05

the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes (ITC) is an
organization that unites the Tribal governments of the Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations,
representing over 500,000 Indian people throughout the United States;
and,

the federal government has a solemn, legal responsibility to provide
American Indians with health care as established through the U.S.
Constitution, treaties with Indian Tribes, U.S. Supreme Court decisions
and federal legislation; and,

the Indian Health Service (IHS) has long been underfunded at only 56
percent of need annually; and,

American Indians suffer from among the lowest health status nationally;
and, Tribal health care delivery; and,

the lateness in enacting a final budget ranges from five days (FY 2002) to
197 days (FY 2011), making quality budget planning almost impossible,
this Council requests that IHS process the payments to Tribes in a timely
manner; and,

since 1998, there has only been one year (FY2006) in which the Interior,
Environmental and Related Agencies Appropriations bill has been enacted
before the beginning of the new fiscal year; and,

the clearest budgetary solution to this failure to uphold the federal trust
responsibility is advance appropriations; and,

THS should be afforded the same budgetary certainty which covers the
Department of Veterans Affairs, which is another federally-funded
provider of health care; and,

this Council asserts that moving to the advance appropriations process

would protect tribes and IHS from cash flow problems that chronically occur at the start
of the federal fiscal year due to delays in enactment of appropriation legislation and last-
minute budget cuts like those caused by sequestration and disastrous government
shutdowns; and,
The INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL of the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES

NOW THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized
Tribes requests that Congress include our recommendation for IHS advance appropriations in the
Budget Resolution and that Congress include in the enacted appropriations bill IHS advance
appropriations.

CERTIFICATION

The foregoing resolution was adopted by the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes
mada in Shawnee, Oklahoma on this 10" day of January, 2014, by a vote of __2/ for

against and Qf __ abstentions.

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Bill Anoatubby, Governor
Chickasaw Nation

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