(EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC-No. 812-76TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 10539] Making supplemental appropriations for the support of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes. OFFICE OF EDUCATION Education and training of defense workers: For payment to States, subdivisions thereof, or other public authorities operating public educational facilities, and where hereinafter authorized to engineering schools and universities, through certification from time to time made by the United States Commissioner of Education (hereinafter referred to as the "Commissioner") to the Secretary of the Treasury of the name of such agency or the name of such engineering school or university and the officer thereof to whom payment is to be made, and the amount to be paid, such payment to be made prior to audit and settlement by the General Accounting Office, for the furtherance of the education and training of defense workers, as follows: (1) For the cost of vocational courses of less than college grade, provided by such agencies in vocational schools pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, which plans shall include courses supplementary to employment in occupations essential to the national defense and pre-employment refresher courses for workers preparing for such occupations selected from the public employment office registers, $26,000,000. (2) For the purchase, rental, or other acquisition of new or used equipment when needed by agencies in providing courses pursuant to a plan approved under (1) of this heading when such acquisitions are in accord with detailed proposals submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $8,000,000: Provided, That the proposals approved by the Commissioner shall include provisions governing the holding of title to and the use of the equipment to be acquired. (3) For the cost of short engineering courses of college grade, provided by engineering schools or by universities of which the engineering school is a part, pursuant to plans submitted by them and approved by the Commissioner, which plans shall be for courses designed to meet the shortage of engineers with specialized training in fields essential to the national defense, $9,000,000: Provided, That only engi neering schools which operate under charters which exempt their edu cational property from taxation shall be eligible to receive these funds: Provided, further, That not to exceed 20 per centum of the amount allotted to any school shall be allotted to it for expenditure for pur chase or rental of additional equipment and leasing of additional space found by the Commissioner necessary for carrying out its approved plan. (4) For the cost, including the necessary equipment and supplies, of vocational courses and related or other necessary instruction provided by such agencies for out-of-school rural youth who have attained the age of seventeen and who file a registration card with a public employment office and for nonrural youth who otherwise meet the above requirements whose training is not feasible under subdivisions (1) and (3) hereof, such courses and instruction to be provided pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $10,000,000. (5) For the cost of vocational courses and related or other necessary instruction provided by such agencies for young people employed on work projects of the National Youth Administration, such courses and instruction to be provided pursuant to plans submitted by such agencies and approved by the Commissioner, $7,500,000: Provided, That the amount allotted to any agency shall be available for expenditure for purchase or rental of additional equipment and rental of additional space found by the Commissioner to be necessary for carrying out the approved plan. The Commissioner shall carry out the purposes of these appropriations under regulations promulgated by him and approved by the President, and there shall be available out of these appropriations an amount determined by the Federal Security Administrator not exceeding 1 per centum of each such appropriation for expenses of administration to enable the Commissioner most efficiently to carry out the purposes of the several appropriations, the total sum to be available for general administration expenses, including printing and binding, equipment and supplies (including purchase of materials and equipment necessary for visual education), traveling expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for expenses of persons (other than Federal employees) requested to attend conferences held in the District of Columbia and elsewhere whose travel is approved at the direction of the Commissioner, salaries for personal services, and rents, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere: Provided, That the Federal Security Administrator may transfer out of the sum available for administration expenses not exceeding $37,500 to the office of the Administrator for use in carrying out the purposes of these appropriations: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase with these funds when the aggregate amount involved in such purchase does not exceed the sum of $100: Provided further, That all functions of the Commissioner hereunder shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the Federal Security Administrator. No trainee under the foregoing appropriations shall be discriminated against because of sex, race, or color; and where separate schools are required by law for separate population groups, to the extent needed for trainees of each such group, equitable provision shall be made for facilities and training of like quality. Further development of vocational education: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of voca tional education in the several States and Territories", approved June 8, 1936, $400,000. Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry", approved June 2, 1920, as amended, $319,500. Approved, October 9, 1940. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC LAW 647-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 475-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7181] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes. Loans to students in technical and professional fields (national defense): To assist students (in such numbers as the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission shall determine) participating in accelerated programs in degree-granting colleges and universities in engineering, physics, chemistry, medicine (including veterinary), dentistry, and pharmacy, whose technical or professional education can be completed within two years, as follows: Loans: For loans to students whose technical or professional education can be completed within two years to enable them to pursue college courses, who attain and continue to maintain satisfactory standards of scholarship, who are in need of assistance, and who agree in writing to participate, until otherwise directed by said Chairman, in accelerated programs of study, in any of the fields authorized hereunder, and who agree in writing to engage, for the duration of the wars in which the United States is now engaged, in such employment or service as may be assigned by officers or agencies designated by said Chairman, such loans to be made by such colleges or universities or public or college-connected agencies from funds paid to them upon estimates submitted by them as to the amounts necessary therefor, $5,000,000: Provided, That in case it shall be found that any payment to any such college, university, or public or college-connected agency is in excess of the needs thereof for the purposes hereof, refund of such excess shall be made to the Treasurer of the United States and the amount thereof credited to this appropriation. Loans hereunder shall be made in amounts not exceeding tuition and fees plus $25 per month and not exceeding a total of $500 to any one student during any twelve-month period, said loans to be evidenced by notes executed by such students payable to the Treasurer of the United States at a rate of interest at 212 per centum per annum. Repayments of such loans shall be made through the colleges, universities, or other agencies negotiating the loans and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided, That indebtedness of students who, before completing their courses, are ordered into military service during the present wars under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or who suffer total and permanent disability or death, shall be canceled. The foregoing loan program shall be administered in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Education with the approval of the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Approved, July 2, 1942. [PUBLIC LAW 726-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 575-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7273] AN ACT To amend section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931, as amended (2 U. S. C. 135a), is amended by striking out the "$350,000" wherever occurring therein and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$370,000", and by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "and not to exceed $20,000 thereof shall be expended for the maintenance and replacement of the Governmentowned reproducers for sound-reproduction records for the blind." SEC. 2. This Act shall be applicable with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Approved, October 1, 1942. (97) |