NURSE TRAINING ACT OF 1964 1 Enacted on September 4, 1964, as P.L. 88-581, 78 Stat. 908 AN ACT To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the opportunity for training professional nursing personnel, and for other purposes 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 "Nurse Training Act of 1964". SEC. 2. The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C., ch. 6A) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new title: "(4) ** while the agreement remains in effect no such student who has attended such school before July 1, 1969, shall receive a loan from a loan fund established under section 204 of the National Defense Education Act of 1958; "PART C-GENERAL * "NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON NURSE TRAINING; REVIEW COMMITTEE "SEC. 841. (a) (1) There is hereby established a National Advisory Council on Nurse Training, consisting of the Surgeon General, who shall be Chairman, and the Commissioner of Education, both of whom shall be ex officio members, and sixteen members appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service laws. Four of the appointed members shall be selected from the general public and twelve shall be selected from among leading authorities in the various fields of nursing, higher, and secondary education, and from representatives of hospitals and other institutions and organizations which provide nursing services. "(2) The Council shall advise the Surgeon General in the preparation of general regulations and with respect to policy matters arising in the administration of this title, and in the review of applications for construction projects under part A and of applications under section 805. 1 The entire text of P.L. 88-581, is given in Appendix I at p. 359. * Legislative History NURSE TRAINING ACT OF 1964 (P.L. 88-581) H. Rept. 1549 (Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce). Congressional Record, vol. 110 (1964): July 21: Considered and passed House. Aug. 12: Considered and passed Senate, amended. Aug. 21: House agreed to Senate amendments, with an amendment. Aug. 21: Senate agreed to House amendment. HIGHER EDUCATION (NOTE.-See also National Defense Education Act on p. 163 for additional programs relating to higher education.) FIRST MORRILL ACT Enacted July 2, 1862, as 12 Stat. 503, 7 U.S.C. 301, and amended on July 23, 1866, by 14 Stat. 208, on March 3, 1873, by 17 Stat. 559, on March 3, 1883, by 22 Stat. 484, on April 13, 1926, by P.L. 104, 69th Congress, 44 Stat. 247, and on December 30, 1930, by P.L. 546, 71st Congress, 46 Stat. 1028. AN ACT Donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860; Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and wherever there are public lands in a State, subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands, within the limits of such State; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States, in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other purpose whatsoever: Provided. That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State, or of any territory of the United States; but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry, at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, an acre: And provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the States: And provided further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied, without any diminution whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the States to which lands are apportioned and from the sales of land scrip herein before provided for shall be invested in bonds of the United States or of the States or some other safe bonds; or the same may be invested by the States having no State bonds in any manner after the legislatures of such States shall have assented thereto and engaged that such funds shall yield a fair and reasonable rate of return, to be fixed by the State legislatures, and that the principal thereof shall forever remain unimpaired: Provided, That the moneys so invested or loaned shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 5 of this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions herein before contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts: First. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum, not exceeding 10 per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States; Second. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or build ings; Third. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as prescribed in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid; Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior; Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished; Sixth. No State, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection. against the Government of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefit of this act; Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within three years from July 23, 1866: Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State and be admitted into the Union such new State shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such acceptance, as prescribed in this act. SEC. 6. (Repealed.) SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided that their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the governors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds. Legislative History FIRST MORRILL ACT 37th Congress*-S. 298: Reported, p. 496, May 16, 1862; amended and passed Senate, p. 628, June 10, 1862. Passed House, p. 880, June 17, 1862. Approved, p. 743, July 2, 1862. Amendments (amends First Morrill) House reported, 38th Congress*-S. 12: Passed Senate, p. 118, Jan. 28, 1864. p. 428, Mar. 25, 1864. Passed House, p. 504, Mar. 25, 1864. 39th Congress*-H.R. 50: House reported, p. 161, Jan. 18, 1866; second report, with amendment, p. 441, Mar. 21, 1866; third report, with amendment, p. 538, Apr. 10, 1866; fourth report, with amendment, p. 542, Apr. 11, 1866. Amended and passed, p. 543, Apr. 11, 1866. Senate reported, p. 626, July 7, 1866. Amended and passed, p. 636, July 11, 1866. House concurred with Senate amendment, p. 1044, July 18, 1866. Approved, p. 1088, July 23, 1866. 42d Congress*-S. 964: Senate report, p. 541, Apr. 12, 1872. Passed Senate, p. 636, Apr. 30, 1872. House reported without amending, Jan. 16, 1873. Passed House, p. 182, Jan. 16, 1873. Approved, p. 182, Mar. 3, 1873. 47th Congress*-S. 1829: Senate reported, p. 879, June 27, 1882. Amended and passed Senate, p. 879, June 27, 1882. Passed House, p. 539, Mar. 2, 1883. Approved, p. 655, Mar. 3, 1883. 69th Congress-P.L. 113. S. 1250: S. Rept. 125, p. 3138; passed Senate, p. 4131, Feb. 17, 1926. H. Rept. 453, p. 5965. Passed House, p. 6884, Apr. 5, 1926. Approved Apr. 13, 1926, p. 7394. P.L. 547 repeals section 6 of First Morrill Act. H.R. 10198; H. Rept. 838; amended and passed House, p. 7349, Aug. 21, 1930. S. Rept. 1162, p. 12433; amended and passed Senate, p. 92, Dec. 3, 1930. House agrees to Senate amendments, p. 473, Dec. 9, 1930. Approved Dec. 16, 1930, p. 1167. Asterisks refer to page numbers in House and Senate Journals. |