84 STAT. 194 National Commission on School Fi nance. Establishment. Ante, p. 193. Ante, p. 165. 79 Stat. 46. 20 USC 332a. Appropriation expenditure. 70 Stat. 938. results of, and recommendations with respect to, research under this paragraph as a separate and distinct part of his annual report pursuant to subsection (d)." (d) The Commissioner shall, not later than ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act, establish a National Commission on School Finance. Such Commission shall consist of fifteen members appointed from (1) members of State and local educational agencies, (2) State and local government officials, (3) education administrators, (4) teachers, (5) financial experts, (6) parents with one or more children in a public elementary or secondary school, (7) the Office of Education, (8) the Department of the Treasury, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and (9) other appropriate fields. The Commissioner shall appoint a chairman and vice chairman from among such members. Such Commission shall make a full and complete investigation and study of the financing of elementary and secondary education, including, but not limited to, the matters referred to in section 2(a)(3) of the Cooperative Research Act (as amended by subsection (c) of this section). The Commission shall report the results of such investigation and study and its recommendations to the Commissioner and the Congress not later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act. Funds available for the purposes of the Cooperative Research Act and for the purposes of section 402 of Public Law 90-247 shall be available for the purposes of this subsection. CONSTRUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES SEC. 810. Section 4 (a) of the Cooperative Research Act (Public Law 83-531) is amended by striking out "July 1, 1970" and substituting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1973", and by striking out "July 1, 1971” and substituting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1974". AMENDMENT RELATING TO THE AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND SEC. 811. (a) The paragraph designated "First" in section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind", approved March 3, 1879 (20 U.S.Č. 102), is amended to read as follows: "First. (A) Such appropriation shall be expended by the trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind each year in manufacturing and furnishing books and other materials specially adapted for instruction of the blind; and the total amount of such books and other materials so manufactured and furnished by such appropriation shall each year be distributed among all the public and private nonprofit institutions in the States, territories, and possessions of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, in which blind pupils are educated. Each public and private nonprofit institution for the education of the blind shall receive, in books and other materials, upon requisition of its superintendent, that portion of the appropriation as is shown by the ratio between the number of blind pupils in that institution and the total number of blind pupils in all of the public and private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated. Each chief State school officer shall receive, in books and other materials, upon requisition, that portion of the appropriation as is shown by the ratio between the number of blind pupils in public and private nonprofit institutions (in the State) in which blind pupils are educated, other than institutions to which the preceding sentence is applicable, and the total number of blind pupils in the public and private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated in all of the States, territories, and possessions of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. The ratio referred to in each of the two immediately preceding sentences shall be computed upon the first Monday in January of each year; and for purposes of such sentences the number of blind pupils in public and private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated shall be authenticated in such manner and as often as the trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind shall require. For purposes of this Act, an institution for the education of the blind is any institution which provides education exclusively for the blind, or exclusively for the blind and other handicapped children (in which case special classes are provided for the blind); the chief State school officer of a State is the superintendent of public elementary and secondary schools in such State or, if there is none, such other official as the Governor certifies to have comparable responsibility in the State; and a blind pupil is a blind individual pursuing a course of study in an institution of less than college grade. "(B) The portion of the appropriation received by each chief State school officer, in such books and other materials under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph which represents the number of blind pupils in private nonprofit institutions in such State in which blind pupils are educated shall be distributed among such institutions on the basis of the number of blind pupils in each such institution as compared to the total number of such pupils in all of the private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated in such State. "(C) All books and other materials furnished pursuant to this Act, and control and administration of their use, shall vest only in a public agency. Such books and materials made available pursuant to this Act for use of teachers and blind pupils in any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia in any school shall be limited to those books and materials which have been approved by an appropriate educational authority or agency of such State, Territory, possession, Commonwealth, or District. or any local educational authority thereof, for use, or are used, in a public elementary or secondary school therein." (b) The paragraph designated "Fourth" of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the education of the blind", approved March 3, 1879, as amended (20 U.S.C. 102), is amended by inserting immediately after "public", the following: "and private nonprofit". (c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by inserting immediately after "public", the following: "or private nonprofit". Approved April 13, 1970. 84 STAT. 195 20 Stat. 468. 20 USC 104. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 91-114 (Comm. on Education & Labor) and No. SENATE REPORT No. 91-634 (Comm. on Labor & Public Welfare). Vol. 115 (1969): Apr. 23, considered and passed House. Public Law 91-237 91st Congress, S. 3253 May 1, 1970 An Act To provide that the Federal Office Building and United States Courthouse in 84 STAT. 201 Designation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Federal Everett McKinley Office Building and United States Courthouse at 219 South Dearborn Dirksen BuildStreet in Chicago, Illinois, shall be renamed the "Everett McKinley ing. Dirksen Building" in memory of the late Everett McKinley Dirksen, a distinguished Member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Illinois from 1933 to 1949 and of the United States Senate from 1950 to 1969. Any reference to the Federal Office Building and United States Courthouse at 219 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois, in any law, regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the United States shall be deemed a reference to such building as the "Everett McKinley Dirksen Building". fiscal 1970. SEC. 2. Upon a determination that a local educational agency lacks Impacted areas. the fiscal capacity to provide an adequate free public education for Emergency school children of persons who live and work on Federal property, and if payments by HEW, such children constitute not less than 25 percent of the total enrollment, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall from sums already available make emergency payments for the current school year to such local educational agency as may be necessary to provide a free public education for such children: Provided, That the total Limitation. of such payments shall not exceed $2,500,000 and shall not exceed the average per pupil cost to such agency for all children eligible to receive a free public education from such agency, less Federal and State payments to such agency for free public education. Approved May 1, 1970. Apr. 20, considered and passed House, amended. Apr. 23, Senate concurred in House amendments, with amendment. Apr. 23, House agreed to Senate amendment. 91st Congress, H. R. 515 May 14, 1970 An Act To amend the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to clarify responsibilities related to providing free and reduced-price meals and preventing discrimination against children, to revise program matching requirements, to strengthen the nutrition training and education benefits of the programs, and otherwise to strengthen the food service programs for children in schools and service institutions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, AUTHORIZATION FOR ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS; CARRYOVER AUTHORIZATION SECTION 1. (a) Section 3 of the National School Lunch Act is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "Appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act and of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 for any fiscal year are authorized to be made a year in advance of the beginning of the fiscal year in which the funds will become available for disbursement to the States. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of such Acts shall remain available for the purposes of the Act for which appropriated until expended." Food service programs for children. 84 STAT. 207 84 STAT. 208 76 Stat. 944; 82 Stat. 117. 42 USC 1752. 80 Stat. 885. 42 USC 1771 note. 76 Stat. 945. (b) The first sentence of section 10 of the National School Lunch Act and the first sentence of section 12(d) (5) of such Act are each amended by striking the words "preceding fiscal year" and inserting 42 USC 1759, in lieu thereof the following: "fiscal year beginning two years immediately prior to the fiscal year for which the Federal funds are appropriated". NONFOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION SEC. 2. Sections 5(a) and 5(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 are amended to read as follows: "(a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, not to exceed $38,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, not to exceed $33,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, not to exceed $15,000,000, and for each succeeding fiscal year, not to exceed $10,000,000, to enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out a program to assist the States through grantsin-aid and other means to supply schools drawing attendance from areas in which poor economic conditions exist with equipment, other than land or buildings, for the storage, preparation, transportation, and serving of food to enable such schools to establish, maintain, and expand school food service programs. In the case of a nonprofit private school, such equipment shall be for use of such school principally in connection with child feeding programs authorized in this Act and in the National School Lunch Act, as amended, and in the event such equipment is no longer so used, it may be transferred to another nonprofit private school participating in any of such programs or to a public school participating in any of such programs, or, failing either of these dispositions, that part of such equipment financed with Federal funds, or the residual value thereof, shall revert to the United States. "(b) The Secretary shall apportion 50 per centum of the funds appropriated for the purposes of this section among the States during each fiscal year on the same basis as apportionments are made under section 4 of the National School Lunch Act, as amended, for supplying agricultural and other foods. The remaining funds appropriated for 1760. Appropriation. 80 Stat. 887. 42 USC 1774. Apportionment to States. 76 Stat. 944. 42 USC 1753. |