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 108 STAT. 1506 PUBLIC LAW 103-296—AUG. 15, 1994 42 USC 425 (c) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— ^°^- (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop and carry out demonstration projects designed to explore innovative referral, monitoring, and treatment approaches with respect to— (A) individuals who are entitled to disability insurance benefits or child's, widow's, or widower's insurance benefits based on disability under title II of the Social Security Act, and (B) individuals who are eligible for supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of such Act based solely on disability, in cases in which alcoholism or drug addiction is a contributing factor material to the Secretary's determination that individuals are under a disability. The Secretary may include in such demonstration projects individuals who are not described in either subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B) if the inclusion of such individuals is necessary to determine the efficacy of various monitoring, referral, and treatment approaches for individuals described in subparagraph (A) or (B). (2) SCOPE. —The demonstration projects developed under paragraph (1) shall be of sufficient scope and shall be carried out on a wide enough scale to permit a thorough evaluation of the alternative approaches under consideration while giving assurance that the results derived from the projects will obtain generally in the operation of the programs involved without committing such programs to the adoption of any particular system either locally or nationally. (3) FINAL REPORT.— The Secretary shall submit to the I Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate no later than December 31, 1997, a final report on the demonstration projects carried out under this subsection, together with any related data and materials which the Secretary may consider appropriate. The authority under this section shall terminate upon the transmittal of such final report. 42 USC 1382 SEC. 202. COMMISSION ON CHILDHOOD DISABILITY. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.— The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the "Secretary") shall appoint a Commission on the Evaluation of Disability in Children (in this section referred to as the "Commission"). (b) APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS. —(1) The Secretary shall appoint not less than 9 but not more than 15 members to the Commission, including— (A) recognized experts in the field of medicine, whose work involves— (i) the evaluation and treatment of disability in children; (ii) the study of congenital, genetic, or perinatal disorders in children; or (iii) the measurement of developmental milestones and developmental deficits in children; and (B) recognized experts in the fields of—• (i) psychology; (ii) education and rehabilitation; (iii) law;

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