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PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

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Public Law 88-443 AN ACT To improve the public health through revising, consolidating, and improving the hospital and other medical facilities provisions of the Public Health Service Act.

August 18, 1964 [H. R. i004l]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Atnerlca in Congress assembled, That this Act may ^j^°^''f p ^nlbe cited as the "Hospital and Medical Facilities Amendments of ties Amendments 1964".

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SEC. 2. Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 24Ji, et seq.) is amended by inserting at the end thereof the 75^stat^*824^^' following new section: 76 stat! nss. "SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS FOR ASSISTING IN THE AREAWIDE PLANNING or HEALTH AND REI^VTED FACILITIES

"SEC. 818. There are authorized to be appropriated $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and $5,000,000 for each of the next four fiscal years to enable the Surgeon General to make grants to the appropriate State agency or agencies designated in accordance with section 604(a)(1) to cover not to exceed 50 per centum of the costs of projects for developing (and from time to time revising) and supervising and assisting in the carrying out of comprehensive regional, metropolitan area, or other local area plans for coordination of existing and planned health facilities, and facilities related thereto, and services provided by such facilities." SEC. 3. (a) Title VI of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., (h. 6A, subch. IV) is amended to read as follows: ' TITLE VI — A S S I S T A N C E FOR CONSTRITCTION AND M O D E R N I Z A T I O N OF H O S P I T A L S AND OTHER M E D I CAL F A C I L I T I E S '"DECLARATION OF PURIH)SE

"SEC. 600, The purpose of this title is— " (a) to assist the several States in the carrying out of their programs for the construction and modernization of such public or other nonprofit community hospitals and other medical facilities as may be necessary, in conjunction with existing facilities, to furnish adequate hospital, clinic, or similar services to all their people; "(b) to stimulate the development of new or improved types of physical facilities for medical, diagnostic, preventive, treatment, or rehabilitative services; and "(c) to promote research, exi^eriments, and demonstrations relating to the effective development and utilization of hospital, clinic, or similar services, facilities, and resources, and to promote the coordination of such research, experiments, and demonstrations and the useful application of their results.

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60 Stat. 1041; 68 Stat. 461; 72 Stat. 489.

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