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PUBLIC LAW 93-96-AUG. 16, 1973

under the authority of the preceding sentence of this subsection, then any institution which such individual subsequently attends shall deny for the remainder of the two-year period any further payment to, or for the direct benefit of, such individual under any of the programs specified in subsection (c). (b) If an institution of higher education determines, after affording notice and oppoitunity foi' hearing to an individual attending, or employed by, such institution, that such individual has willfully refused to obey a lawful regulation or- order of such institution after the date of enactment of this Act, and that such refusal was of a serious nature and contributed to a substantial disruption of the administration of such institution, then such institution shall deny, for a period of two years, any further payment to, or for the direct benefit of, such individual under any of the programs specified in subsection (c). (c) The programs referred to in subsections (a) and (b) are as follows: (1) The programs authorized by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950; and (2) The programs authorized under title IX of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 relating to establishing the Science Information Service. (d)(1) Nothing in this Act, or any Act amended by this Act, shall be construed to prohibit any institution of higher education from refusing to award, continue, or extend any financial assistance under any such Act to any individual because of any misconduct which in its judgment bears adversely on his fitness for such assistance. (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting or prejudicing the rights and prerogatives of any institution of higher education to institute and carry out an independent, disciplinary proceeding pursuant to existing authority, practice, and law. (3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the freedom of any student to verbal expression of individual views or opinions. SEC. 8. The amount available for the oceanographic ship construction/conversion program from the sum stipulate-d (for the purpose of "National and Special Research Programs") in category (2) of section 1 of Public Law 92-372 shall, after the date of the enactment of this Act, be determined without regard to section 2(a) of such Public Law. SEC. 9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other Act, the Director of the National Science Foundation shall keep the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate fully and currently informed with respect to all the activities of the National Science Foundation. SEC. 10. No funds—• (1) authorized to be appropriated under this Act to the National Science Foundation for fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, or (2) heretofore appropiiated to the National Science Foundation and remaining available to it for obligation and expenditure, may be used to conduct or support research in the United States or abroad on a human fetus which is outside the womb of its mother and which has a beating heart. SEC. 11. This Act may be cited as the "National Science Foundation Authorization Act, 1974". Approved August 16, 1973.

64 Stat. 42 USC note. 72 Stat. 42 USC

149. 1861 1601. 1876.

86 Stat. 526. Information to congressional committees.

Human fetus research, funds, prohibition.

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