CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO PAY SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS TO PRISONERS FOR HEALTH CARE ITEMS AND SERVICES.

SEC. 1157. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO PAY SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS TO PRISONERS FOR HEALTH CARE ITEMS AND SERVICES. Section 4006 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—(1) in subsection (a) by inserting after “The Attorney General” the following: “or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as applicable,”; and (2) in subsection (b)(1)—(A) by striking “the Immigration and Naturalization Service” and inserting “the Department of Homeland Security”; (B) by striking “shall not exceed the lesser of the amount” and inserting “shall be the amount billed, not to exceed the amount”; (C) by striking “items and services” and all that follows through “the Medicare program” and inserting “items and services under the Medicare program”; and (D) by striking “; or” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting a period.