H.R. 9525: Federal Bureau of Prisons Medical Care Act of 2026

This bill would change a federal law governing medical care for people in federal prisons.

What it would do

• It would limit when the Bureau of Prisons can charge a fee for prison health care services.
• Under the revised rule, a fee could be charged only when a prisoner receives medical care for an injury caused by another prisoner.
• In that situation, the Bureau of Prisons could collect the fee from the account of the prisoner who caused the injury, not from the injured prisoner.

What it would remove

• It would delete a separate subsection of the current law, which would eliminate one existing part of the fee-related rules.
• It would also remove a phrase that refers to whether a prisoner qualifies for an exclusion under the section, which would simplify the law’s wording.

Practical effect

In plain terms, the bill appears intended to make sure prisoners are not charged fees for their own medical visits in most cases, while still allowing the prison system to charge the prisoner who caused an injury when someone else needs treatment because of that injury.

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