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PUBLIC LAW 92-158-NOV. 18, 1971

SPECIAL P R O J E C T GRANTS A N D CONTRACTS; F I N A N C I A L GRANTS

469 DISTRESS

3. (a) AUTHORIZATION LEVEL.—Section 808 (42 U.S.C. 296g) is 82 Stat. 783. amended to read as follows: "SEC. 808. For payments under grants and contracts under section 805(a) there are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for the ^"ira. fiscal year ending June 30, 1972; $28,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; and $35,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974. There are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, to make grants under section 805(b), and, to the extent that sums appropriated under this sentence are not used for such grants, for grants under section 805(a)." (b) ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.—Effective with respect to appropriations made under section 808 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296g) for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1971, section 805 (42 U.S.C. 296d) is amended to read as follows: 8 2 Stat. 781. SEC.

"SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS; FINANCIAL DISTRESS GRANTS

"SEC. 805. (a) From appropriations under section 808 the Secretary may make grants to public and other non-profit private schools of nursing and other public or non-profit private agencies, organizations and institutions, and enter into contracts with any public or private agencies, organizations, or institutions, to meet the costs of special projects to— "(1) assist in— " (A) mergers between hospital training programs or between hospital training programs and academic institutions, or " (B) other cooperative arrangements among hospitals and academic institutions, leading to the establishment of nurse training programs; " (2) develop training programs, and train, for new roles, types, or levels of nursing personnel, including programs for the training of pediatric nurse practitioners or other types of nurse practitioners; " (3) develop programs for cooperative interdisciplinary training among schools of nursing and schools of allied health, medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, or veterinary medicine, including training for the use of the team approach to the delivery of health services; " (4) assist in increasing the supply, or improving the distribution, of adequately trained nursing personnel or to promote the full utilization of nursing skills; "(5) effect significant improvements in the curriculums of schools of nursing; "(6) research, develop, or demonstrate advances in the various fields related to education in nursing; " (7) plan, develop, or establish new programs or modifications of existing programs of nursing education; "(8) increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged students; " (9) provide continuing education for nurses; "(10) provide appropriate retraining opportunities for nurses who (after periods of professional inactivity) desire again actively to engage in the nursing profession;

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