PUBLIC LAW 95-266-APR. 24, 1978 the recommendations of the panel described in subsection (b) of this section, proposed model adoption legislation and procedures and publish such proposal in the Federal Register for comment. After soliciting and giving due consideration to the comments of interested individuals, groups, and organizations and consulting further with such panel, the Secretary shall issue and publish model adoption legislation and procedures which shall not conflict with the provisions of any interstate compact in operation pursuant to which States are making, supervising, or regulating placements of children. 92 STAT. 209 (b) (1) Not later than ninety days after the date of enactment of Panel. this Act, the Secretary shall appoint a panel (hereinafter referred to Appointment. as the "panel") to be composed of not less than eleven nor more than seventeen members generally representative of public and voluntary organizations, agencies, and persons interested and with expertise and experience in facilitating the achievement of the purposes of this title (including, but not limited to, national, State, and local child welfare organizations, including those representative of minorities, and adoptive parent organizations). The panel shall (A) review current conditions, practices, and laws relating to adoption, with special reference to their effect on facilitating or impeding the location of suitable adoptive homes for children who would benefit by adoption and the completion of suitable adoptions for such children; and (B) not later than twelve months after the date on which the members of the panel have been appointed, propose to the Secretary model (including adoption assistance agreement) legislation and procedures relating to adoption designed to facilitate adoption by families of all economic levels. (2) The panel shall be terminated thirty days after the Secretary Termination. publishes the final model legislation and procedures pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. (3) Members of the panel, other than those regularly employed Compensation. by the Federal Government, while serving on business of the panel shall be entitled to receive compensation at a rate not in excess of the daily equivalent of the rate payable to a GS-18 employee under section 5322 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime; and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business. they may be allowed travel expenses (including per diem in lieu of subsistence) as authorized by section 5703 of such title for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (c) The Secretary shall take such steps as he or she deems necessary to encourage and facilitate the enactment in each State of comprehensive adoption assistance legislation and the establishment in each State of the model legislation and procedures published pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. INFORMATION AND SERVICES SEC. 203. (a) The Secretary shall establish in the Department of 42 USC 5113. Health, Education, and Welfare an appropriate administrative arrangement to provide a centralized focus for planning and coordinating of all departmental activities affecting adoption and foster care and for carrying out the provisions of this title. The Secretary shall make available such consultant services and personnel, together with 92 STAT. 210 Report to congressional committees. 42 USC 5114. PUBLIC LAW 95-266-APR. 24, 1978 appropriate administrative expenses, as are necessary for carrying out such purposes. (b) In connection with carrying out the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary shall- (1) provide (directly or by grant to or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations) for the establishment and operation of a national adoption and foster care data gathering and analysis system utilizing data collected by States pursuant to requirements of law; (2) conduct (directly or by grant to or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations) an education and training program on adoption, and prepare, publish, and disseminate (directly or by grant to or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies and organizations) to all interested parties, public and private agencies and organizations (including, but not limited to, hospitals, health care and family planning clinics, and social services agencies), and governmental bodies, information and education and training materials regarding adoption and adoption assistance programs; (3) notwithstanding any other provision of law, provide (directly or by grant to or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations) for (A) the operation of a national adoption information exchange system (including only such information as is necessary to facilitate the adoptive placement of children, utilizing computers and data processing methods to assist in the location of children who would benefit by adoption and in the placement in adoptive homes of children awaiting adoption); and (B) the coordination of such system with similar State and regional systems; (4) provide (directly or by grant to or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations, including parent groups) for the provision of technical assistance in the planning, improving, developing, and carrying out of programs and activities relating to adoption; and (5) consult with other appropriate Federal departments and agencies in order to promote maximum coordination of the services and benefits provided under programs carried out by such departments and agencies with those carried out by the Secretary, and provide for the coordination of such aspects of all programs within the Department of Health. Education, and Welfare relating to adoption. STUDY OF UNLICENSED ADOPTION PLACEMENTS SEC. 204. The Secretary shall provide for a study (the results of which shall be reported to the appropriate committees of the Congress not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act) designed to determine the nature, scope, and effects of the interstate (and, to the extent feasible, intrastate) placement of children in adoptive homes (not including the homes of stepparents or relatives of the child in question) by persons or agencies which are not licensed by or subject to regulation by any governmental entity. PUBLIC LAW 95–266—APR. 24, 1978 AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 92 STAT. 211 SEC. 205. There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the 42 USC 5115. fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and such sums as may be necessary for the succeeding three fiscal years to carry out this title. Approved April 24, 1978. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 95–609 (Comm. on Education and Labor). SENATE REPORT No. 95-167 accompanying S. 961 (Comm. on Human Resources). Vol. 123 (1977): Sept. 26, considered and passed House. Oct. 27, considered and passed Senate, amended, in lieu of Vol. 124 (1978): Apr. 10, House agreed to Senate amendments with amend ments. Apr. 12, Senate concurred in House amendments. 92 STAT. 220 PUBLIC LAW 95-270-APR. 27, 1978 Public Law 95-270 95th Congress An Act Apr. 27, 1978 [S. 2452] Hubert H. Institute of and the Everett Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act. 20 USC 2566 note. 20 USC 2566. 20 USC 2567. 20 USC 2568. Appropriation authorization. 20 USC 2569. Effective date. 20 USC 2566 note. To authorize funds for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and for the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center Assistance Act". SEC. 2. (a) In recognition of the public service of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, the Commissioner of Education (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Commissioner") is authorized to make grants in accordance with the provisions of this Act to assist in the development of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, located at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-Saint Paul. (b) In recognition of the public service of Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants in accordance with the provisions of this Act to assist in the development of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center, located in Pekin, Illinois. SEC. 3. No payment may be made under this Act except upon an application at such time, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Commissioner may require. SEC. 4. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $5,000,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2(a) of this Act. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $2,500,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 2(b) of this Act. (c) Funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall remain available until expended. (d) This Act shall take effect October 1, 1978. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: SENATE REPORT No. 95-706 (Comm. on Human Resources). Mar. 22, considered and passed Senate. Apr. 18, considered and passed House, amended. Apr. 19, Senate concurred in House amendment. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 14, No. 17: Apr. 27, Presidential statement. 92 STAT. 278 PUBLIC LAW 95–286—MAY 26, 1978 Public Law 95-286 95th Congress An Act May 26, 1978 [H.R. 10392] Woodrow Memorial Act of 1968, amendment. 20 USC 80h-80j. Establishment. 20 USC 80g-1. Hubert H. Trust Fund. To establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution and to establish a trust fund to provide a stipend for such fellowship. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (20 U.S.C. 80e-80j) is amended (1) by redesignating sections 5 through 7 as sections 6 through 8, respectively, and (2) by inserting after section 4 the following new section: “HUBERT H. HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT "SEC. 5. (a) There is hereby established in the Center a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought. "(b) Each year the Board shall select a distinguished scholar, statesman, or cultural figure, from the United States or abroad, to serve at the Center for a period of up to one year as the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in Social and Political Thought (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Humphrey Fellow'). Each Humphrey Fellow shall receive compensation in an amount, determined by the Board, not to exceed the annual income of the trust fund established under subsection (d). "(c) Each Humphrey Fellow shall— "(1) deliver a Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial Lecture; and The Board shall provide for the publication and dissemination of the "(d) (1) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Trust Fund (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'fund'). The Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit in the fund such sums as may be appropriated to the fund under subsection (f) and shall receive into the Treasury and deposit into the fund such sums as may be received as contributions to the fund. "(2) The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in the fund in public debt securities with maturities suitable for the needs of the fund and bearing interest at prevailing market rates; and the interest on such investments shall be credited to and form a part of the fund. "(3) Notwithstanding section 4(a) (2) any gift, bequest, or devise of money, securities or other property for the benefit of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought received by the Board shall, upon receipt, be deposited into the fund as provided by paragraph (1). "(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the Board from amounts received as interest on investments under subsection (d) (2) such sums as the Board determines are necessary and appropriate for the purposes of the Humphrey Fellowship. |