A bill to require an annual authorization for appropriations for Federal programs for the benefit of American Indian people; establish specific annual goals to measure the effectiveness of these programs; improve the delivery of services and assistance; insure effective and continuing congressional oversight.
National Indian Goals and Progress Act - States that all authority for appropriations for programs for the benefit of American Indian people administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior and by the Indian Health Service of the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be granted on an annual basis pursuant to a single annual authorization Act.
Directs the Secretaries of the Department of the Interior and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to prepare and submit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate, by February 1 of each year, an annual appropriation authorization bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 which shall include specified provisions.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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