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pregnancy-related services in order to facilitate their use as a base for delivery of more comprehensive pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services to adolescents;

(4) give funding priority, where appropriate, to grantees using single or coordinated grant applications for multiple programs; and

(5) give priority, where appropriate, to providing funding under existing Federal programs to projects providing comprehensive pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services. (b) A State using funds provided under title VI to improve the delivery of pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services throughout the State shall coordinate its activities with programs of local grantees, if any, that are funded under title VI.

(c) The Secretary shall set aside, in each fiscal year, not less than 1 per centum nor more than 3 per centum of the funds appropriated under this Act for evaluation of activities under titles VI and VII and shall designate a program unit to carry out such evaluations, which shall be a program unit other than the unit having primary administrative responsibility for carrying out the grant program authorized by this Act. The Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress, not later than February 1, 1981, and periodically thereafter copies of summaries of all such evaluations.

(d) The program unit responsible for carrying out the activities under titles VI and VII shall report directly to the Assistant Secretary for Health in consultation and in coordination with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.

TITLE VIII-STUDY OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY

SEC. 801. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall contract with an independent entity to perform a study of the problem of adolescent pregnancies. The study shall evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs relating to health, education, and public welfare, as they relate to this problem, and shall include suggestions as to the most effective means for reducing or eliminating unwanted adolescent. pregnancies. The Secretary shall report the results of such study to the Congress not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.

(b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $500,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSISTANCE AND BILL OF RIGHTS ACT

TITLE I—SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED AND PERSONS WITH OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 1

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PART A-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 100. [6000 Note] This title may be cited as the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act".

FINDINGS AND PURPOSES

SEC. 101. [6000] (a) The Congress finds that

(1) there are more than two million persons with developmental disabilities in the United States;

(2) individuals with disabilities occurring during their developmental period are more vulnerable and less able to reach an independent level of existence than other handicapped individuals who generally have had a normal developmental period on which to draw during the rehabilitation process;

(3) persons with developmental disabilities often require specialized lifelong services to be provided by many agencies in a coordinated manner in order to meet the persons' needs;

(4) general service agencies and agencies providing specialized services to disabled persons tend to overlook or exclude persons with developmental disabilities in their planning and delivery of services; and

(5) it is in the national interest to strengthen specific programs, especially programs that reduce or eliminate the need for institutional care, to meet the needs of persons with developmental disabilities.

(b)(1) It is the overall purpose of this title to assist States to assure that persons with developmental disabilities receive the care, treatment, and other services necessary to enable them to achieve their maximum potential through a system which coordinates, monitors, plans, and evaluates those services and which ensures the protection of the legal and human rights of persons with developmental disabilities.

(2) The specific purposes of this title are

(A) to assist in the provisions of comprehensive services to persons with developmental disabilities, with priority to those persons whose needs cannot be covered or otherwise met under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or other health, education, or welfare programs;

(B) to assist States in appropriate planning activities;

(C) to make grants to States and public and private, nonprofit agencies to establish model programs, to demonstrate innovative habilitation techniques, and to train professional and paraprofessional personnel with respect to providing services to persons with developmental disabilities;

Title I of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-164).

(D) to make grants to university affiliated facilities to assist them in administering and operating demonstration facilities for the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities, and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to provide specialized services for these persons; and

(E) to make grants to support a system in each State to protect the legal and human rights of all persons with developmental disabilities.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 102. [6001] For purposes of this title:

(1) The term "State" includes Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the District of Columbia.

(2) The term "facility for persons with developmental disabilities" means a facility, or a specified portion of a facility, designed primarily for the delivery of one or more services to persons with one or more developmental disabilities.

(3) The terms "nonprofit facility for persons with developmental disabilities" and "nonprofit private institution of higher learning" mean, respectively, a facility for persons with developmental disabilities and an institution of higher learning which are owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual; and the term "nonprofit private agency or organization” means an agency or organization which is such a corporation or association or which is owned and operated by one or more of such corporations or associations.

(4) The term "construction" includes construction of new buildings, acquisition, expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings, and initial equipment of any such buildings (including medical transportation facilities); including architect's fees, but excluding the cost of offsite improvements and the cost of the acquisition of land.

(5) The term "cost of construction" means the amount found by the Secretary to be necessary for the construction of a project.

(6) The term "title", when used with reference to a site for a project, means a fee simple, or such other estate or interest (including a leasehold on which the rental does not exceed 4 per centum of the value of the land) as the Secretary finds sufficient to assure for a period of not less than fifty years undisturbed use and possession for the purposes of construction and operation of the project. (7) The term "developmental disability" means a severe, chronic disability of a person which

(A) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;

(B) is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two; (C) is likely to continue indefinitely;

(D) results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: (i) self-care, (ii) receptive and expressive language, (iii) learning, (iv) mobility, (v) self-direction, (vi) capacity of independent living, and (vii) economic self-sufficiency; and

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