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PUBLIC LAW 87-396-OCT. 6, 1961

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Public Law 87-395 October 5, 1961 [H. R. 4998]

Community Health Services and F a c i l i t i e s Act of 1961.

AN ACT To assist in expanding and improving community facilities and services for the health care of aged and other persons, and for other puriK>ses. Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Community Health Services and Facilities Act of 1961". GRANTS FOR PUBLIC H E A L T H

60 Stat. 424; 72 Stat. 400. 42 USC 246.

62 Stat. 469.

Payment a t < States, reduction.

42 USC 243-247.

SERVICES

SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (c) of section 314 of the Public Health Service Act is amended by striking out "there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum not to exceed $30,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "there is authorized to be appropriated for each of the first five fiscal years ending after June 30, 1961, the sum of $50,000,000". (b) The second sentence of such subsection is amended (1) by striking out "an amount, not to exceed $3,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "such amount as may be necessary", and (2) by striking out "$1,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$2,500,000". (c) Such subsection is further amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: "When so provided in any Act appropriating funds for carrying out the purposes of this subsection for any year, such amounts as may be specified in such Act shall be available only for allotments and payments for such services and activities included under this subsection as may be provided in such Act; and in such case the requirements of subsection (h) shall be separately applied to such allotments and payments." (d) Section 314 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (m) The Surgeon General, at the request of the State health authority or, where appropriate, the State mental health authority, may reduce the payments to a State under this section by the amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee of the Public Health Service to the State or any of its political subdivisions when such detail is made for the convenience of and at the request of the State and for purposes of carrying out its State plan approved under this section. The amount by which such payments are so reduced shall be available for payment of such costs by the Surgeon General, but shall, for purposes oi subsection (h), bs deemed to have been paid to the State." (e) Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is further amended by adding after section 315 the following new section: SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS FOR IMPROVING COMMUNITY H E A L T H SERVICES

"SEC. 316. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each of the first five fiscal years ending after June 30, 1961, the sum of $10,000,000, for grants to State or other public or nonprofit private agencies or organizations for studies, experiments, and demonstrations looking toward development of new or improved methods of providing health services outside the hospital, particularly for chronically ill or aged persons. Any grant for any such project made from an appropriation under this section for any fiscal year may include such amounts as the Surgeon General determines to be necessary for succeeding fiscal years for completion of the Federal participation in the project as approved by the Surgeon General.

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