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 100 STAT. 358

PUBLIC LAW 99-272—APR. 7, 1986

"(E) appropriate efforts to be carried out by hospitals, schools of medicine, schools of osteopathy, and accrediting bodies with respect to the matters specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), including efforts for changes in undergraduate and graduate medical education programs; and "(F) deficiencies in, and needs for improvements in, existing data bases concerning the supply and distribution of, and post-graduate training programs for, physicians in the United States and steps that should be taken to eliminate those deficiencies; and "(2) encourage entities providing graduate medical education to conduct activities to voluntarily achieve the recommendations of the Council under paragraph (1)(E). "(b) The Council shall be composed of^ "(1) the Assistant Secretary for Health or the designee of the Assistant Secretary; "(2) the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration; "(3) the Chief Medical Director of the Veterans' Administration; "(4) 6 members appointed by the Secretary to include representatives of practicing primary care physicians, national and specialty physician organizations, foreign medical graduates, and medical student and house staff associations; "(5) 4 members appointed by the Secretary to include representatives of schools of medicine and osteopathy and public and private teaching hospitals; and "(6) 4 members appointed by the Secretary to include representatives of health insurers, business, and labor. "(c)(1) Members of the Council appointed under paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of subsection (b) shall be appointed for a term of 4 years, except that the term of office of the members first appointed shall expire, as designated by the Secretary at the time of appointment, 4 at the end of one year, 4 at the end of 2 years, 3 at the end of 3 years, and 3 at the end of 4 years. "(2) The Secretary shall appoint the first members to the Council under paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of subsection (b) within 60 days after the date of enactment of this section. "(d) The Council shall elect one of its members as Chairman of the Council. "(e) Nine members of the Council shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may hold hearings. "(f) Any vacancy in the Council shall not affect its power to function. "(g) Each member of the Council who is not otherwise employed by the United States Government shall receive compensation at a rate equal to the daily rate prescribed for GS-18 under the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, for each day, including traveltime, such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties as a member of the Council. A member of the Council who is an officer or employee of the United States Government shall serve without additional compensation. All members of the Council shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.

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