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PUBLIC LAW 87-838-OCT. 17, 1962

[76 STAT.

Public Law 87-838 October 17, 1962 [H. R, 11099]

Public Health Service Act, amendment. 58 Stat. 707. 42 USC 281289c.

AN ACT To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to extend for three additional years the authorization for grants for the construction of facilities for research in the sciences related to health, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., ch. 6A, subch. I l l) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new part: " P A R T E—INSTITUTES OF CHILD HEALTH AND H U M A N DEVELOPMENT AND OF GENERAL M E D I C A L
 * ESTABLISHMENT

SCIENCES

OF INSTITUTE OF C H I L D H E A L T H AND DEVELOPMENT

HUMAN

"SEC. 441. The Surgeon General is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary, to establish in the Public Health Service an institute for the conduct and support of research and training relating to maternal health, child health, and human development, including research and training in the special health problems and requirements of mothers and children and in the basic sciences relating to the processes of human growth and development, including prenatal development. "ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

"SEC. 442. The Surgeon General is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary, to estaolish in the Public Health Service an institute for the conduct and support of research and research training in the general or basic medical sciences and related natural or behavioral sciences which have significance for two or more other institutes, or are outside the general area of responsibility of any other institute, established under or by this Act. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY COUNCILS

64 Stat. 444. 42 USC 289b.

"SEC. 443. (a) The Surgeon General is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary, to establish an advisory council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Surgeon General on matters relating to the activities of the institute established under section 441. H e may also, with such approval, establish such d. council with respect to the activities of the institute established under section 442. "(b) The provisions relating to the composition, terms of office of members, and reappointment of members of advisory councils under section 432(a) shall be applicable to any council established under this section, except that, in lieu of the requirement in such sections that six of the members be outstanding in the study, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease or diseases, six of such members shall be selected from leading medical or scientific authorities who are outstanding in the field of research or training with respect to which the council is being established, and except that the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, may include on any such council established under this section such additional ex officio members as he deems necessar^y in the li^ht of the functions of the institute with respect to which it is established.

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