national directory listing by State the toll-free numbers described in section 505(a)(5)E).

(b) The State health agency of each State shall be responsible for the administration (or supervision of the administration) of programs carried out with allotments made to the State under this title, except that, in the case of a State which on July 1, 1967, provided for administration (or supervision thereof) of the State plan under this title (as in effect on such date) by a State agency other than the State health agency, that State shall be considered to comply 13 the requirement of this subsection if it would otherwise comply but for the fact that such other State agency administers (or supervises the administration of) any such program providing services for children with special health care needs.

SEPARATE PROGRAM FOR ABSTINENCE EDUCATION

SEC. 510. [42 U.S.C. 710] (a) For the purpose described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall, for fiscal year 1998 and each subsequent fiscal year, allot to each State which has transmitted an application for the fiscal year under section 505(a) an amount equal to the product of

(1) the amount appropriated in subsection (d) for the fiscal year; and

(2) the percentage determined for the State under section 502(c)(1)(B)(ii).

(b)(1) The purpose of an allotment under subsection (a) to a State is to enable the State to provide abstinence education, and at the option of the State, where appropriate, mentoring, counseling, and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual activity, with a focus on those groups which are most likely to bear children outof-wedlock.

(2) For purposes of this section, the term "abstinence education" means an educational or motivational program which

(A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;

(B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children; (C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;

(D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;

(E) teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;

(F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society;

(G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and

13 As in original. Probably should be "comply with".

(H) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

(c)(1) Sections 503, 507, and 508 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such sections apply to allotments under section 502(c).

(2) Sections 505 and 506 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the extent determined by the Secretary to be appropriate.

(d) For the purpose of allotments under subsection (a), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an additional $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1998 through 2002. The appropriation under the preceding sentence for a fiscal year is made on October 1 of the fiscal year.

[TITLE VI-GRANTS TO STATES FOR SERVICES TO THE AGED, BLIND, OR DISABLED] 1

IP.L. 92-603, §302, 86 Stat. 1478, added Title VI, effective January 1, 1974. P.L. 93-647, §3(b); 88 Stat. 2349, repealed Title VI, effective with respect to payments under §603 of this Act for quarters commencing after September 30, 1975.

Sec. 707.

Grants for expansion and development of undergraduate and
graduate programs.

493

Sec. 708.

Delivery of benefit checks

494

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 3

SEC. 701. [42 U.S.C. 901] (a) There is hereby established, as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration (in this title referred to as the "Administration").

(b) It shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II and the supplemental security income program under title XVI.

COMMISSIONER; DEPUTY COMMISSIONER; OTHER OFFICERS

Commissioner of Social Security

SEC. 702. [42 U.S.C. 902] (a)(1) There shall be in the Administration a Commissioner of Social Security (in this title referred to as the "Commissioner") who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(2) The Commissioner shall be compensated at the rate provided for level I of the Executive Schedule.

1Title VII of the Social Security Act is administered by the Office of the Commissioner of Social Security.

Title VII appears in the United States Code as §§901-912 of subchapter VII, chapter 7, Title 42.

Regulations of the Social Security Administration relating to Title VII are contained in subtitle A and chapter II, Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.

See Vol. II, 31 U.S.C. 6504-6505, with respect to intergovernmental cooperation.

See Vol. II, P.L. 88-352, §601, for prohibition against discrimination in federally assisted programs.

2 This table of contents does not appear in the law.

3 See Vol. II, P.L. 103-296, §105, with respect to transfers to the new Social Security Administration; §106, with respect to transition rules; and §109, with respect to rules of construction.