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 PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978

92 STAT. 2373

States (excluding the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and Midway Island). EFFECTIVE DATES

SEC. 1415. (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) this title 20 USC 921 note, shall take effect on July 1, 1979. (2) Section 1407(b) and the amendments made by section 1407(c), 1408(a), and 1408(b) shall take effect on October 1, 1978. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other provision of this title no provision of this title shall be construed to impair or prevent the taking effect of the provision of any other Act providing for the transfer of the functions described in this title to an executive department having responsibility for education. TITLE XV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS .

PART A—INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD

DECLARATION OF PURPOSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD

SEC. 1501. The United Nations General Assembly, by a resolution 22 USC 287 note, approved at its thirty-first session, has designated the year 1979 as the International Year of the Child. This action was designed to focus national and international attention on various aspects of the needs of children and to encourage all nations, individually and in cooperation, to take appropriate and relevant actions to meet them. The General Assembly called upon member states and international organizations to participate fully in the International Year of the Child and to devote the year 1979 to efforts at the international, national and community levels to provide lasting improvements in the well-being of children. ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL COMMISSION

SEC. 1502. (a) The President shall establish a National Commission Membership, on the International Year of the Child (hereinafter in this Act 22 USC 287 note, referred to as the "Commission"), and to appoint to the Commission not more than twenty-five members chosen from among citizens in private life. (b) The President shall designate a Chairperson and two Vice Chairperson. Chairpersons from among the members. (c) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may each designate two Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, to serve on the Commission, in addition to the members to be appointed by the President. FUNCTIONS OF THE

COMMISSION

SEC 1603. (a) The Commission shall promote: (i) effective and 22 USC 287note, significant observance in the United States of 1979 as the International Year of the Child (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Year"), with particular reference to the goals stated in section 2; (ii) cooperation by the United States with UNICEF and other international organizations and with other nations to achieve the objectives of the Year. To these ends, the Commission shall seek to stimulate within the United States a better understanding of, and actions to meet, the " ' ' needs of children both in this and in other countries. Such needs would

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