42 1 not be utilized by such State in carrying out the purposes of 2 this section, he shall make such amount available for carrying out the purposes of this section to one or more other States 4 which he determines will be able to use additional amounts 5 during such year for carrying out such purposes. Any 6 amount made available to a State for any fiscal year pursuant 7 to the preceding sentence shall, for purposes of this Act, be 8 regarded as an increase of such State's allotment (as deter 9 mined under the preceding provisions of this section) for 10 such year. 11 121 CLIENT ADVOCACY SEC. 112. (a) The Secretary shall set aside out of funds 13 appropriated under section 100 such sums as may be nec 14 essary, but no less than 1 per centum of the funds appro15 priated, to establish a system of client advocacy for each 16 geographical area in which programs or projects are being 17 carried out with funds under this Act. Such client advocacy 18 systems shall be funded directly through the State agency 19 administering the State plan under this Act and shall function 20 in the capacity of an ombudsman to seek to resolve as 21 quickly and amicably as possible any complaints presented 22 by clients or client applicants. 23 (b) Persons carrying out functions under the client 24 advocacy systems shall not be employees, present clients, 25 or in any way under the supervision of rehabilitation pro 43 1 grams, projects, or facilities in connection with which they 2 are performing client advocacy. Such persons shall be af3 forded prompt and reasonable access to responsible policy4 making and administrative personnel in the State agency or 5 agencies and the regional and central offices of the Rehabili6 tation Services Administration in order to resolve client 7 complaints as quickly and effectively as possible. 8 14 (c) Each client advocacy system shall submit an an9 nual report through the State agency designated pursuant to 10 section 101 to the Secretary on the operation of the system 11 during the previous year, including such recommendations 12 for legislative and administrative changes as are deemed 13 appropriate in light of such operation, a description of each case in which a satisfactory resolution of the complaint was 15 not achieved, and a uniform statistical tabulation of all cases 16 handled. A copy of each such report shall be submitted to 17 the appropriate committees of the Congress annually by the 18 Secretary, together with his evaluations of such systems 19 conducted during the preceding year and with a summary 20 of, and commentary on, the individual reports submitted, 21 including appropriate recommendations. 22 (d) In setting up client advocacy systems under this 23 section, each State agency shall insure that maximum efforts 24 are made to enter into cooperative arrangements with insti25 tutions of higher education to secure the services in such 79-885 - 72 - pt. 2 - 50 44 1 systems of graduate students who are undergoing clinical 2 training activities in the fields of law, social services, reha 3 bilitation counseling, psychology, education, and health and 4 other related fields. 5 (e) No client or client applicant in any way assisted 6 with funds under this Act shall be denied access to the 7 appropriate client advocacy system or in any way threat8 ened or discouraged from presenting complaints to such 9 system. If the Secretary finds that a willful violation of 10 this subsection has occurred, he may, in accordance with, 11 and subject to, the procedures, rights, and remedies speci12 fied in subsection (c) of section 101, suspend or limit pay13 ments under this title, as provided in such subsection (c), 14 to the State in connection with the facility in which such 15 violation has occurred. 16 EXPERIMENTAL APPEAL PROJECTS 17 SEC. 113. (a) The Secretary may, in ten representa18 tive geographical areas, provide for the conduct of various 19 types of client appeal and review systems, including the 20 following: 21 (1) close examination of the present appeals sys tem as carried out on a statewide basis in a State with a relatively small population; (2) a system of appeals from actions of one re 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 45 habilitation facility to a panel of caseworker/counselor peers from other such facilities; (3) a system of appeals to designated Federal offi cials at a regional office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and (4) a system of appeals to one rehabilitation facility from actions of another such facility. (b) The Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 9 committees of the Congress within two years after the date of 10 enactment of this Act a report on the results of each experi11 ment carried out under this section, including the costs and 12 personnel entailed in each, and an evaluation of the existing 13 varieties of appeal systems throughout the United States. 14 PART C-SUPPLEMENTARY FUNDS FOR VOCATIONAL AND 155 16 17 18 COMPREHENSIVE REHABILITATION SEVERELY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS STATE ALLOTMENTS SERVICES ΤΟ SEC. 120. (a) From sums appropriated to carry out 19 the provisions of this part for each fiscal year, each State 20 shall be entitled to an allotment of an amount bearing the 21 same ratio to such sums as the product of (1) the population 22 of the State, and (2) its allotment percentage (as described 23 in section 7) bears to the sum of the corresponding products 24 for all of the States. The allotment to any State under 46 1 the preceding sentence for any fiscal year which is less 2 than $150,000 shall be increased to that amount, the 3 total of the increases thereby required being derived by 4 proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the 5 remaining States under the preceding sentence, but with 6 such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allot7 ment of any such remaining States from being thereby 8 reduced to less than that amount. 9 13 (b) Whenever the Secretary determines that any amount 10 of an allotment to a State for any fiscal year will not be 11 utilized by such State in carrying out the purposes of this 12 section, he shall make such amount available for carrying out the purposes of this section to one or more of the States 14 which he determines will be able to use additional amounts 15 during such year for carrying out such purpose. Any amount 16 made available to a State for any fiscal year pursuant to 17 the preceding sentence shall, for the purpose of this title, be 18 regarded as an increase in the State's allotment (as deter19 mined under the preceding provisions of this section) for 20 such year. 21 17 22 (c) Amounts allotted to a State under this part shall be available only for expenditure for the provision of voca23 tional and comprehensive rehabilitation services under this 24 title for a severely handicapped individual, to the extent that 25 (A), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, the cost of |