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 PUBLIC LAW 94-484—OCT. 12, 1976

90 STAT. 2293

year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of veterinary medicine. "(6) There are authorized to he appropriated $3,204,585 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $3,272,670 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $3,366,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of optometry. "(7) There are authorized to be appropriated $16,989,970 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $17,110,205 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $17,368,050 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of pharmacy. "(8) There are authorized to be appropriated $2,267,750 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $2,270,645 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $2,285,120 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of podiatry.". (d) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of 42 USC 295f the next two fiscal years, there are authorized to be appropriated "o*®such sums as may be necessary to continue to make annual grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry under section 770(a) of the Public Health Service Act (as in effect on September 30, 1977) based on the 42 USC 295f. number of enrollment bonus students (determined in accordance with subsections (d) and (e) of section 770 of such Act (as so in effect)) enrolled in such schools who were first-year students in such schools for school years ending before September 30, 1977, except that the amount of any grant made to such a school from sums appropriated under this subsection may not exceed the amount of the grant the school received in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, based on the number of such students enrolled in it. (e) Effective October 1, 1977, the heading for part E of title VII is amended to read as follows: "PART E—GRANTS To IMPROVE THE QUALITY or SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE, OSTEOPATHY, DENTISTRY, PUBLIC HEALTH, VETERINARY MEDICINE, OPTOMETRY, PHARMACY, AND PODIATRY".

(f) The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall Effective date, apply with respect to appropriations under section 770 of the Public 42 USC 295f Health Service Act, and grants under that section, for fiscal years note, beginning after September 30, 1977. GRANT REQUIREMENTS

SEC. 502. Effective with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1977, part E of title VII is amended (1) by striking out sections 771, 772, 773, and 774, and (2) by adding after section 770 42 USC the following new section: 295f-l295f-4. 'ELIGIBILITY FOR CAPITATION GRANTS

"SEC. 771. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall not make a grant 42 USC 295f-l. under section 770 to any school in a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1977, unless the application for the grant contains, or is supported by, assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that— "(1)_ the first-year enrollment of full-time students in the school in the school year beginning in the fiscal year in which the

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