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PUBLIC LAW 89-290-OCT. 22, 1965

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Public Law 89-290 October 22, 1965 [H. R. 3141]

Health Professions Educational Assistance Amendments of 1965.

AN ACT

To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the educational quality of schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy, to authorize grants "under that Act to such schools for the awarding of scholarships to needy students, and to extend expiring provisions of that Act for student loans and for aid in construction of teaching facilities for students in such schools and schools for other health professions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Health Professions Educational Assistance Amendments of 1965". EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS A N D S C H O L A R S H I P GRANTS TO SCHOOLS OF M E D I C I N E, D E N T I S T R Y, OSTEOPATHY, OPTOMETRY, A N D PODIATRY

70 Stat. 717; 77 Stat. 164, 282. 42 USC 292 et seq.

SEC. 2. (a) Title VII of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new part s: " P A R T E — G R A N T S To IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, OSTEOPATHY, OPTOMETRY, AND PODIATRY "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 770. There are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and $80,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, for grants under this part to assist schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, and podiatry to improve the quality of their educational programs. "BASIC IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

Enrollment inc r e a s e requirement.

42 USC 293a.

"SEC. 771. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the Surgeon General may make basic improvement grants as follows: "(1) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, each school of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, or podiatry whose application for a basic improvement grant for such year has been approved by the Surgeon General shall oe paid the sum of $12,500 plus the product obtained by multiplying $250 by the number of full-time students in such school. "(2) For each fiscal year in the period beginning July 1, 1966, and ending June 30, 1969, each such school whose application has been approved for such a grant for such year shall be paid the sum of $25,000 plus the product obtained by multiplying $500 by the number of full-time students in such school. " (b) The Surgeon General shall not make a grant under this section to any school unless the application for such grant contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that for the first school year beginning after the fiscal year for which such grant is made and each school year thereafter during which such a grant is made the first-year enrollment of full-time students in such school will exceed the highest firstyear enrollment of such students in such school for any of the five school years during the period July 1, 1960, through July 1, 1965, by at least 2i^ per centum of such highest first-year enrollment, or by fiive students, whichever is greater. The requirements of this subsection shall be in addition to the requirements of section 721(c)(2) (l>) of this Act, where applicable. The Surgeon General is authorized to waive (in whole or in part) the provisions of this subsection

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