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 PUBLIC LAW 95-215—DEC. 19, 1977

91 STAT. 1503

Public Law 95-215 95th Congress An Act To amend the conditions for scliools receiving capitation grants under section 770 of such Act, and for other purposes.

Dec. 19, 1977 [H.R. 9418]

Be it enacted by the Senate UTid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section Public Health 771 (b)(3) of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as Service Act, amendment. follows: "(3] (A) Except as provided under subparagraph (D), a school of Medical schooli! grant eligibility, medicine may not receive a grant under section 770 to be made in the Hscal year 1978. fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, unless its application for such Enrollment grant contains or is supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secre- requirements. tary that such school will increase its enrollment of full-time, third- 42 USC 295f-l. 42 USC 295f. year students as prescribed by subparagraph (B). "(B) The enrollment increase referred to in subparagraph (A) is an enrollment increase in a school of medicine— " (i) which is to occur in school year 1978-1979, "(ii) in the number of full-time, third-year students over the number of full-time, second-year students who successfully completed the second-year program of such school in the preceding school year and enrolled in the third-year class of such school, and "(iii) which is not less than 5 per centum of the number of— " (I) full-time, first-year students enrolled in such school in school year 1977-1978, or " (II) full-time, third-year students enrolled in such school in school year 1977-1978, whichever is less. "(C) In determining the number of full-time, third-year students Enrollment enrolled in a school in a school year in which an increase is required increase, criteria. by subparagraph (B)(i) — "(i) full-time, third-year students of such school who were not second-year students in such school and— " (I) who are not citizens of the United States, " (II) who were previously enrolled in a school of medicine to which the requirement of subparagraph (A) applies, "(III) who were previously enrolled in a school of medicine to which the requirement of subparagraph (A) does not apply because of subparagraph (D) and for whom a position in the third-year class of such school was available in such school year, " (IV) who first enrolled after October 12, 1976, in a school » ! of medicine not in a State, " (V) who were previously enrolled in a school of dentistry . > or a school of osteopathy, or " ( VI) who were previously enrolled in a school of medicine which is in a State and which is not accredited by the body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education, shall not be counted; and

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