APPENDIX [PUBLIC LAW 13-83D CONGRESS] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1953, submitted to the Congress on March 12, 1953, shall take effect ten days after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, and its approval by the President, notwithstanding the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, except that section 9 of such Act shall apply to such reorganization plan and to the reorganization made thereby. Approved April 1, 1953. REORGANIZATION PLAN No. 1 of 1953 Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, March 12, 1953, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganiaztion Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE U.S.C. Supp. 1, 628 5 U.S.C. SECTION 1. Creation of Department; Secretary. Supp I, Note There is hereby established an executive department, which shall be known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Department). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Secretary), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary. SEC. 2.1 Under Secretary and Assistant Secretaries.There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and five 2 Assistant Sec 1 Sec. 2 amended and sec. 3 deleted by sec. 4 of P.L. 89-115. Sec. 1(b) of P.L. 89-234, October 2, 1965, provided for an additional Assistant Secretary of HEW, but did not specifically amend P.L. 83-13. retaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for under secretaries and assistant secretaries, respectively, of executive departments. The Under Secretary (or, during the absence or disability of the Under Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Under Secretary, an Assistant Secretary determined according to such order as the Secretary shall prescribe) shall act as Secretary during the absence or disability of the Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Secretary. SEC. 3.1 * SEC. 4. Commissioner of Social Security.-There shall be in the Department a Commissioner of Social Security who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions concerning social security and public welfare as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter fixed by law for grade GS-18 of the general schedule established by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. SEC. 5. Transfers to the Department.-All functions of the Federal Security Administrator are hereby transferred to the Secretary. All agencies of the Federal Security Agency, together with their respective functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available), and all other functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available) of the Federal Security Agency are hereby transferred to the Department. SEC. 6. Performance of functions of the Secretary.— The Secretary may from time to time make such provisions as the Secretary deems appropriate authorizing the performance of any of the functions of the Secretary by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department. SEC. 7. Administrative services.-In the interest of economy and efficiency the Secretary may from time to time establish central administrative services in the fields of procurement, budgeting, accounting, personnel, library, legal, and other services and activities common to the several agencies of the Department; and the Secretary may effect such transfers within the Department of the personnel employed, the property and records used or held, and the funds available for use in connection with such administrative-service activities as the Secre tary may deem necessary for the conduct of any services so established: Provided, That no professional or substantive function vested by law in any officer shall be removed from the jurisdiction of such officer under this section. SEC. 8. Abolitions.-The Federal Security Agency (exclusive of the agencies thereof transferred by sec. 5 of this reorganization plan), the offices of Federal Security Administrator and Assistant Federal Security Administrator created by Reorganization Plan No. 1 (53 Stat. 1423), the two offices of assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency created by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1946 (60 Stat. 1095), and the office of Commissioner for Social Security created by section 701 of the Social Security Act, as amended (64 Stat. 558), are hereby abolished. The Secretary shall make such provisions as may be necessary in order to wind up any outstanding affairs of the Agency and the offices abolished by this section which are not otherwise provided for in this reorganization plan. SEC. 9. Interim provisions.-The President may authorize the persons who immediately prior to the time this reorganization plan take effect occupy the offices of Federal Security Administration, Assistant Security Administrator, assistant heads of the Federal Security Agency, the Commissioner for Social Security to act as Secretary, Under Secretary, and Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare and as Commissioner of Social Security, respectively, until those offices are filled by appointment in the manner provided by sections 1, 2, and 4 of this reorganization plan, but not for a períod of more than 60 days. While so acting, such persons shall receive compensation at the rates provided by this reorganization plan for the offices the functions of which they perform. TABLE A.-Some major amendments of the Public Health Service Act since 19441 and nonprofit institutions for the constructing and equipping of facilities for To amend title III of the PHS Act, and for other purposes. (Establishes in the To strengthen the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service through 19. Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963. 20. Sec. 101 of the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act of 1963. P.L. 86-610, July 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 364). P.L. 87-395, Oct. 5, 1961 (75 Stat. 824). to provide for international cooperation in health research, research To assist in expanding and improving community facilities and services for To amend title III of the PHS Act to authorize grants for family clinics for To amend the PHS Act to provide for the establishment of an Institute of P.L. 87-868, Oct. 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1155). To assist States and communities to carry out intensive vaccination programs P.L. 88-129, Sept. 24, 1963 (77 Stat. 164).. P.L. 88-164, Oct. 31, 1963 (77 Stat. 282). 21. Hospital and Medical Facilities Amendments of P.L. 88-443, Aug. 18, 1964 (78 Stat. 447). 1964. 22. Nurse Training Act of 1964. P.L. 88-581, Sept. 4, 1964 (78 Stat. 908). 28. Community Health Services Extension Amend- P.L. 89-109, Aug. 5, 1965 (79 Stat. 435).. ments of 1965. 24. Health Research Facilities Amendments of 1965. P.L. 89-115, Aug. 9, 1965 (79 Stat. 448). This table includes only major amendments which have made significant or extensive changes in the PHS Act. It does not purport to be a comprehensive listing of all amendments of that act. As authorized in the act, except where noted. Since the 85th Cong., each public law has carried a prefix which is the number of the Congress in which it was enacted. Thus, P.L. 85-480 is Public Law 480 of the 85th Cong. designed to protect their populations, particularly all preschool children, To increase the opportunities for training of physicians, dentists, and pro- To improve the public health through revising, consolidating, and improving To extend and otherwise amend certain expiring provisions of the Public To provide for a program of grants to assist in meeting the need for adequate For convenience, the references to public laws contained herein have been conformed to 59-106 066-18 O |