ENACTMENTS BY THE 90TH CONGRESS CONCERNING CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1. PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT The main purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive record of the enactments by the 90th Congress during its first session, 1967, concerning education and training. Besides giving the texts of the enactments, the report presents digests of these laws, with particular reference to their educational and training features or aspects. The report also cites related recommendations and statements by President Johnson, and summarizes the legislative histories of the enacted bills containing educational and training provisions of significance. The report incidentally includes some selected comments from the public press relative to action on some of these bills. 2. SCOPE OF THE REPORT This report covers legislation relating generally to education and training. În the broadest sense, the former term includes the latter. It would be presumptuous, however, to attempt to define in this report precisely what legislation Congress would consider pertinent to or affecting education. Since the report is intended to be comprehensive, it includes acts relating to training as well as those relating to education, and acts concerning students, teachers, or educational institutions. Thus, the report covers a variety of legislation and legislative objectives. Apart from the omission of some appropriation measures, the aim is to include both legislation involving direct Federal financing and administration of educational and training activities, and legislation involving forms of Federal aid to States, localities, institutions, and individuals in these fields. In some instances. the legislative provisions included are subsidiary parts of legislation principally concerned with other matters. In brief, what is here presented in a panoramic view of many diverse measures of current interest concerning education and training. 3. SOURCES The information brought together and summarized in this report has been obtained princially from the weekly compilation of Presidential Documents, the daily Congressional Record, the Congressional Directory, the Calendars of the House of Representatives, the Digest 1 Most of the departments and independent agencies of the Government administer some educational or training programs. This report includes certain appropriations for only the U.S. Office of Education and some of the larger programs of other agencies affecting education and training, for the fiscal year 1968. of Public General Bills and Selected Resolutions, the texts of the bills dealt with, the House and Senate hearings and committee reports on these bills, and the Statutes at Large. Some other sources are cited in footnotes. CHAPTER II. BILLS REPORTED FROM THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, which, as amended, is currently effective, lists measures relating to education, labor or public welfare first among those activities to be referred to the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Other measures concerned with education and training which are named to be referred to that committee include those relating to vocational rehabilitation, education of veterans, and Howard University. However, the act requires that certain other measures which involve education and training be referred to other named committees of the Senate. For example, the act directs referral of bills relating to the education of Indians to the Senate Committee on Public Lands. In order to show to some extent the volume of education and training legislation considered by the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare in 1967, the following pages will list first, in chronological order of approval by the President, the enactments which, in the eariler forms of bills, were referred to that committee. The acts which in their earlier forms were referred to other committees of the Senate will be listed in a later chapter, likewise in the order of approval of the acts by the President. The reference to hearings are to those printed by February 15, 1968. 1. MENTAL HEALTH AMENDMENTS OF 1967: TRAINING OR DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS (Public Law 90-31, approved June 24, 1967) A. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY H.R. 6431, the Mental Health Amendments of 1967, was introduced on March 1, 1967, by Representative Harley O. Staggers, of West Virginia. The bill was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Hearings on the bill were held before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce on April 4 and 5, 1967. The bill was reported in the House on April 25, 1967 (H. Rept. 212). It passed the House on May 17, 1967. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on June 7, 1967 (S. Rept. 294). It passed the Senate on June 8, 1967. It was approved on June 24, 1967 and became Public Law 90-31. B. PROVISION FOR TRAINING Besides its other provisions, Public Law 90-31 adds a new section (sec. 507) to the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 224) reading as follows: 81 Stat. 80. Appropriations to the Public Health Service available for research, training, or demonstration project grants pursuant to this Act shall also be available, on the same terms and conditions as apply to non-Federal institutions, for grants for the same purpose to hospitals of the Service, of the Veterans' Administration, or of the Bureau of Prisons of the Department of Justice, and to Saint Elizabeths Hospital. 2. CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY (Public Law 90-32, approved June 28, 1967) A. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY H.R. 4717 was introduced on February 2, 1967, by Representative Robert A. Everett, of Tennessee. The bill was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. It was reported from that committee on March 15, 1967 (H. Rept. 127). It passed the House on April 3, 1967. In the Senate, hearings on S. 619, a bill similar to H.R. 4717, were held before the Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs, of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on April 5, 1967. H.R. 4717 was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on June 7, 1967 (S. Rept. 293). It passed the Senate, amended, on June 8, 1967. The House agreed to the Senate amendments on June 21, 1967. The act was approved on June 28, 1967, and became Public Law 90-32. B. DIGEST OF THE ACT The act directs the Administration of Veterans' Affairs to convey without consideration, certain lands owned by the United States to the State of Tennessee for the use of Memphis State University, Memphis, Tenn. Memphis State Uni- Time limitation. C. TEXT OF THE ACT Following is the text of Public Law 90-32: AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of certain lands owned by the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized and directed to convey, without consideration, to the State of Tennessee for the use of Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that tract of land constituting a portion of the grounds of the Kennedy Veterans' Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, including the improvements thereon, containing 129 acres, more or less, and being the same tract of land acquired by the United States for hospital purposes and paid for by the city of Memphis and county of Shelby, Tennessee, and which, upon completion of a new veterans' hospital presently under construction at another site in the city of Memphis, will be excess to the needs of the Veterans' Administration. SEC. 2. (a) The conveyance authorized by the first section of this Act shall be made not later than December 31, 1970, and may be made at any time prior to such date if the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs determines that the property to be conveyed is no longer needed by the Veterans' Administration. (b) The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized to convey any portion or portions of the tract referred to in the first section of this Act prior to the time that he determines that the entire tract is no longer needed by the Veterans' Administration, if he determines that (1) such portion or portions are no Conditions. longer needed by the Veterans' Administration, (2) the conveyance of such portion or portions will not interfere with activities of the Veterans' Administration still being carried out on the lands at the Veterans' Administration not yet conveyed, and (3) the conveyance of such portion or portions will facilitate the conversion of such property to educational uses by Memphis State University. SEC. 3. Any deed of conveyance made pursuant to this Act shall contain such additional terms, conditions, reservations, easements, and restrictions as may be determined by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be necessary to protect the interest of the United States. SEC. 4. The property conveyed pursuant to this Act shall be Use of property. used solely for educational purposes, and if such property is ever used for purposes other than educational purposes, title thereto shall revert to, and become the property of, the United States, which shall have the right of immediate entry thereon. SEC. 5. Memphis State University shall pay the cost of such Surveys cost. surveys as may be necessary to determine the exact legal description of the real property to be conveyed and shall bear all other expenses in connection with the preparation and recording of the necessary legal documents. 3. EDUCATION PROFESSIONS DEVELOPMENT ACT (Public Law 90-35, approved June 29, 1967) A. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY In the House, hearings on Higher Education Amendments of 1967 (including bills to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965) were held before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor on April 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, and May 2, 1967. In the Senate, hearings on Education Legislation, 1967 (including bills to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965) were held before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on April 26, May 25, and June 23, 1967. H.R. 10943, the Education Professions Development Act, a bill to amend and extend title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965, was introduced on June 16, 1967, by Representative Carl D. Perkins, of Kentucky (chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor) and other Representatives. The bill was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. A similar bill, S. 2028, was introduced on June 27, 1967, by Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon (chairman of the Subcommittee on Educa 91-165 0-68—pt. 1 |