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supplementing, or replacing section 507 shall apply to any such assignment.

(d) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for each fiscal year thereafter such sums, not to exceed $5,000,000, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

SEC. 908. [42 U.S.C. 1108] (a) ESTABLISHMENT.-Not later than February 1, 1992, and every 4th year thereafter, the Secretary of Labor shall establish an advisory council to be known as the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation (referred to in this section as the "Council").

(b) FUNCTION.-It shall be the function of each Council to evaluate the unemployment compensation program, including the purpose, goals, countercyclical effectiveness, coverage, benefit adequacy, trust fund solvency, funding of State administrative costs, administrative efficiency, and any other aspects of the program and to make recommendations for improvement.

(c) MEMBERS.

(1) IN GENERAL.-Each Council shall consist of 11 members as follows:

(A) 5 members appointed by the President, to include representatives of business, labor, State government, and the public.

(B) 3 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, in consultation with the Chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Finance of the Senate.

(C) 3 members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representative, in consultation with the Chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.

(2) QUALIFICATIONS.-In appointing members under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (1), the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each appoint

(A) 1 representative of the interests of business,
(B) 1 representative of the interests of labor, and

(C) 1 representative of the interests of State govern

ments.

(3) VACANCIES.-A vacancy in any Council shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made.

(4) Chairman.-The President shall appoint the Chairman of the Council from among its members.

(d) STAFF AND OTHER ASSISTANCE.

(1) IN GENERAL.-Each council may engage any technical assistance (including actuarial services) required by the Council to carry out its functions under this section.

(2) ASSISTANCE FROM SECRETARY OF LABOR.-The Secretary of Labor shall provide each Council with any staff, office facilities, and other assistance, and any data prepared by the Department of Labor, required by the Council to carry out its functions under this section.

(e) COMPENSATION.-Each member of any Council

(1) shall be entitled to receive compensation at the rate of pay for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code, for each day (including travel time) during which such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Council, and

(2) while engaged in the performance of such duties away from such member's home or regular place of business, shall be allowed travel expenses (including per diem in lieu of subsistence) as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government employed intermittently. (f) REPORT.

(1) IN GENERAL.-Not later than February 1 of the third year following the year in which any Council is required to be established under subsection (a), the Council shall submit to the President and the Congress a report setting forth the findings and recommendations of the Council as a result of its evaluation of the unemployment compensation program under this section.

(2) REPORT OF FIRST COUNCIL.-The Council shall include in its report required to be submitted by February 1, 1995, the Council's findings and recommendations with respect to determining eligibility for extended unemployment benefits on the basis of unemployment statistics for regions, States, or subdivisions of States.

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION ACCOUNT 15

SEC. 909. [42 U.S.C. 1109] There is hereby established in the Unemployment Trust Fund a Federal Employees Compensation Account which shall be used for the purposes specified in section 8509 of title 5, United States Code. For the purposes provided for in section 904(e), such account shall be maintained as a separate book account.

BORROWING BETWEEN FEDERAL ACCOUNTS

SEC. 910. [42 U.S.C. 1110] (a) IN GENERAL.-Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury (after consultation with the Secretary of Labor) determines that

(1) the amount in the employment security administration account, Federal unemployment account, or extended unemployment compensation account, is insufficient to meet the anticipated payments from the account,

(2) such insufficiency may cause such account to borrow from the general fund of the Treasury, and

(3) the amount in any other such account exceeds the amount necessary to meet the anticipated payments from such other account,

the Secretary shall transfer to the account referred to in paragraph (1) from the account referred to paragraph (3) 16 an amount equal to the insufficiency determined under paragraph (1) (or, if less, excess determined under paragraph (3)).

the

15 See Vol. II, P.L. 97–362, §202(b)(2), with respect to the treatment of previously appropriated funds. 16 As in original. Probably should read "in paragraph (3)”.

(b) TREATMENT OF ADVANCE.-Any amount transferred under subsection (a)——

(1) shall be treated as a noninterest-bearing repayable advance, and

(2) shall not be considered in computing the amount in any account for purposes of the application of sections 901(f)(2), 902(b), and 905(b).

(c) REPAYMENT.-Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury (after consultation with the Secretary of Labor) determines that the amount in the account to which an advance is made under subsection (a) exceeds the amount necessary to meet the anticipated payments from the account, the Secretary shall transfer from the account to the account from which the advance was made an amount equal to the lesser of the amount so advanced or such ex

cess.

TITLE X-GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO THE

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SEC. 1001. [42 U.S.C. 1201] For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to needy individuals who are blind, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, State plans for aid to the blind.

STATE PLANS FOR AID TO THE BLIND

SEC. 1002. [42 U.S.C. 1202] (a) A State plan for aid to the blind must (1) except to the extent permitted by the Secretary with respect to services, provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if administered by them, be manda

1P.L. 92-603, §303, repealed Title X, effective January 1, 1974, except with respect to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

Title X of the Social Security Act is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Family Assistance, administers benefit payments under Title X. The Administration for Public Services, Office of Human Development Services, administers social services under Title X.

Title X appears in the United States Code as §§1201-1206, subchapter X, chapter 7, Title 42. Regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to Title X are contained in subtitle A and chapter XIII, Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.

The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas may elect to initiate a Title X social services program if it chooses; see Vol. II, Appendix, P.L. 94-241, (Covenant to Establish Northern Mariana Islands), approved March 24, 1976.

See Vol. II, 31 U.S.C. 6504-6505 with respect to intergovernmental cooperation; and 31 U.S.C. 7501-7507 with respect to uniform audit requirements for State and local governments receiving Federal financial assistance.

See Vol. II, P.L. 82-183, §618, for the "Jenner Amendment”, which prohibits denial of grantsin-aid under certain conditions.

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

See Vol. II, P.L. 89-97, §121(b), with respect to restrictions on payment to a State receiving payments under Title XIX

See Vol. II, P.L. 95–521, §102(i), with respect to reporting of benefits received under the Social Security Act.

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tory upon them; (2) provide for financial participation by the State; (3) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan; (4) provide (A) for granting an opportunity for a fair hearing before the State agency to any individual whose claim for aid to the blind is denied or is not acted upon with reasonable promptness, and (B) that if the State plan is administered in each of the political subdivisions of the State by a local agency and such local agency provides a hearing at which evidence may be presented prior to a hearing before the State agency, such local agency may put into effect immediately upon issuance its decision upon the matter considered at such hearing; (5) provide (A) such methods of administration (including after January 1, 1940, methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan 3, and (B) for the training and effective use of paid subprofessional staff, with particular emphasis on the full-time or part-time employment of recipients and other persons of low-income, as community service aides, in the administration of the plan and for the use of nonpaid or partially paid volunteers in a social service volunteer program in providing services to applicants and recipients and in assisting any advisory committees established by the State agency; (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; and (7) provide that no aid will be furnished any individual under the plan with respect to any period with respect to which he is receiving old-age assistance under the State plan approved under section 2 of this Act or assistance under a State program funded under Part A of title IV; (8) provide that the State agency shall, in determining need, take into consideration any other income and resources of the individual claiming aid to the blind, as well as any expenses reasonably attributable to the earning of any such income, except that, in making such determination, the State agency (A) shall disregard the first $85 per month of earned income, plus one-half of earned income in excess of $85 per month, (B) shall, for a period not in excess of twelve months, and may, for a period not in excess of thirty-six months, disregard such additional amounts of other income and resources, in the case of an individual who has a plan for achieving self-support approved by the State agency, as may be necessary for the fulfillment of such plan, and (C) may, before disregarding the amounts referred to in clauses (A) and (B), disregard not more than $7.50 of any income; 4

3P.L. 91-648, §208(a)(3)(D), transferred to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, effective March 6, 1971, all powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary under subparagraph (A).

4 See Vol. II, 10 U.S.C. 2546 with respect to shelter for the homeless at military installations. See Vol. II, P.L. 79-396, §12(e), with respect to exclusion from income and resources of assistance to children under that act.

See Vol. II, P.L. 81-171, §521(a)(1)(E), with respect to exclusion from income and resources of certain assistance rendered to provide occupant-owned, rental and cooperative housing. See Vol. II, P.L. 87-543, §141(b), with respect to ineligibility to receive payments under Title X where payments have been made under Title XVI.

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