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PUBLIC LAW 813-JULY 26, 1956

tion provided by educational institutions, and the impact of the military services on youth, combine to make it imperative that immediate stimulus be given to planning and action throughout the Nation which will meet adequately the needs for education beyond the high school. SEC. 2. (a) To encourage and assist each State to provide for a State committee on education beyond the high school, composed of educators and other interested citizens, to consider educational problems beyond the high school and to make recommendations for appropriate action to be taken by public and private agencies at local. State, regional, and Federal levels, including the possibility of coordinating compulsory military service with established programs of institutions of higher education, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $650,000, Sums appropriated pursuant to this section shall be allotted to the States on the basis of their respective populations according to the latest figures certified by the Department of Commerce except that no State's allotment shall be less than $7,500. (b) The Commissioner of Education shall pay its allotment to each State which, through its governor or other State official designated by the governor, undertakes to accept and use the sums so paid exclusively for the purposes set forth in subsection (a), including the expenses of studies and conferences, and to have its State committee on education beyond the high school make a report of its findings and recommendations to the Commissioner for the use of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School. Sums appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available until June 30, 1958, and any such sums remaining unpaid to the States or unobligated by them as of that date shall be returned to the Treasury. SEC. 3. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, such sums as the Congress may determine, for the administration of this Act and the expenses of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School which committee insofar as practicable shall be composed of educators and educational administrators fairly representative of the large and small universities and colleges and geographically representative of the Nation. (b) Persons (other than those whose travel expenses are payable from allotments under section 2(a)), while away from their homes or regular places of business at conferences called by the President's Committee, and members of the Committee, while attending conferences or on other business of the Committee away from their homes or regular places of business, may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (c) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized to appoint, without regard to the civil-service laws, an executive director for the President's Committee at a salary to be fixed by the Secretary, but not in excess of $14,000 per annum. SEC. 4. The Commissioner is authorized to accept funds, equipment, personal services, and facilities donated for purposes of this Act and to use the same in accordance with such purposes. SEC. 5. For the purposes of this Act the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. SEC. 6. The President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School shall make its final report in writing to the President and to the Congress no later than December 31, 1957. Approved July 26, 1956.

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