CHAPTER V. SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION

A. BILLS REPORTED FROM THE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

Measures concerning education and training enacted by the 89th Congress during its 1st session (1965) ranged from increasing appropriations for some relatively minor and long-established activities to initiation of broad new policies and programs in this field.

In 1965 the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, and particularly the Subcommittee on Education headed by Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, considered numerous bills wholly or partly concerning education and training. Enactments which, in the earlier form of bills, were reported from that committee include the following: Public Law 89-10, the Elementry and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which authorizes: (1) Federal financial aid to local educational agencies for the education of children of low-income families; (2) Federal funds for use in the acquisition of school library resources and institutional materials; (3) Federal funds for supplementary education centers and services; (4) Federal grants for research, surveys, and demonstrations in education; and (5) Federal grants to strengthen certain activities of State departments of education.

Public Law 89-15, the Manpower Act of 1965, which, according to President Johnson, will give opportunity for training and jobs to the people who were previously denied jobs for lack of training.

Public Law 89-36, which provides for the establishment and operation of a National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Public Law 89-69, which extends for 1 year the Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act, including its grants for demonstration projects and grants for personnel training.

Public Law 89-73, the Older Americans Act of 1965, which includes authorization for Federal grants for community planning services and training, and grants for development and training projects.

Public Law 89-77, which amends Public Laws 815 and 874, 81st Congress, as applied to certain areas outside the continental limits. Public Law 89-105, the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act Amendments of 1965, which includes authorization of Federal appropriations for training of teachers of handicapped children, and has other educational features.

Public Law 89-115, which extends the health research facilities grants program for 3 years, making available construction assistance for research facilities for new medical and dental schools.

Public Law 89-125, which amends the National Arts and Cultural Development Act of 1964.

Public Law 89-137, which increases subsistence allowances to disabled veterans pursuing vocational rehabilitation training.

Public Law 89-138, which amends disabled veterans' vocational rehabilitation legislation.

Public Law 89-178, which authorizes grants for a program of research and study of personnel needs in the field of correctional rehabilitation, et cetera.

Public Law 89-209, which provides for the establishment of the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.

Public Law 89-222, which increases war orphans' educational assistance.

Public Law 89-239, which amends the Public Health Service Act so as to further assist in combating heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other major diseases through research and training.

Public Law 89-253, the Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1965, which has a number of educational and training features, including development of work-training programs, work-study programs, et cetera.

Public Law 89-258, which provides for a loan service of captioned films and other educational media for deaf persons.

Public Law 89-287, which establishes a system of loan insurance and a supplementary system of direct loans to assist students to attend postsecondary business, trade, technical, and other vocational schools.

Public Law 89-290, which authorizes appropriations to aid schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, and podiatry in improving the quality of their educational programs; provides for scholarship grants to students in the health professions; and otherwise promotes education in the health professions.

Public Law 89-291, which authorizes grants to assist in constructing and rehabilitating medical library facilities, in training medical librarians, and in otherwise developing medical libraries.

Public Law 89-313, which provides for Federal aid for school construction in areas affected by disasters.

Public Law 89-329, the Higher Education Act of 1965, which authorizes Federal appropriations for aiding community educational services and continuing education programs; increasing college library resources, promoting library training and research, and supporting cataloging of library materials; strengthening developing colleges; providing financial aid to academically qualified and needy students; establishing a national teacher corps; et cetera.

Public Law 89-333, which liberalizes Federal financing of vocational rehabilitation programs and otherwise amends the Vocational Rehabilitation Act.

B. BILLS REPORTED FROM OTHER COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE

Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, enactments concerning educa tion and training, which, in the earlier form of bills, were reported from Senate committees other than the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, include the following:

Public Law 89-14, which increases the authorization for adult Indian vocational education.

Public Law 89-51, which makes certain technical changes in the law respecting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

Public Law 89-53, which authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal 1966, including an authorizaton of $4,536,971,000 for research and development, usable in part for grants to nonprofit institutions of higher education.

Public Law 89-57, which makes appropriations to the Treasury and Post Office Departments, the Executive Office of the President, and certain dependent agencies, for fiscal 1966, including funds for operation of the Coast Guard Academy.

Public Law 89-117, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, which includes extension of the college housing loan program through 1968 at the rate of $300 million a year.

Public Law 89-128, the Independent Offices Appropriations Act for fiscal 1966, which contains an appropriation of $479,999,000 for the National Science Foundation, an agency "whose primary concern, is education." 14

Public Law 89-134, which authorizes $115 million for the fiscal 1966 Peace Corps program, which largely involves teaching and arrangements with educational institutions.

Public Law 89-156, the Department of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act for 1966, which includes among the larger appropriations affecting education and training $273,500,000 for manpower development and training, $252,491,000 for expansion and improvement of vocational education, and $412,608,000 for defense educational activities.

Public Law 89-160, which authorizes language training to be given dependents of members of the Armed Forces under certain circum

stances.

Public Law 89-164, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act for fiscal 1966, which includes an appropriation of $53 million for mutual educational and cultural exchange activities, and appropriations for some other programs involving education and training.

Public Law 89-169, which authorizes an agreement with the University of Texas for operation of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Archival Depository.

Public Law 89-171, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1965, which contains several provisions affecting education and training, widely involved in foreign aid.

Public Law 89-182, which provides for Federal grants to support State technical services, designed to enable business, commerce, and industry to acquire and more effectively use scientific information through various means, such as training programs.

Public Law 89-199, the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Supplemental Appropriation Act for 1966, which appropriates $967 million for elementary and secondary educational activities, besides supplemental funds for several other programs concerned with education and training.

Public Law 89-213, the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1966, which appropriates billions of dollars for the Armed

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Forces, much of which goes for the training of personnel, including vocational training in many fields.

Public Law 89-260, which authorizes construction of the third Library of Congress building, to be named the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building.

Public Law 89-273, the Foreign Assistance and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1966, which appropriates $202,355,000 for economic assistance, $1,170 million for military assistance, and some other sums for activities involving education and training.

Public Law 89-280, which increases the authorization for appropriations to the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.'

Public Law 89-309, the 1966 Supplemental Appropriation Act, which includes $160 million for higher educational activities, $5,700,000 for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, and $8,310,000 for grants to States for vocational rehabilitation, including training.

Public Law 89-316, the 1966 Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, which includes appropriations of $75,600,000 for cooperative agricultural extension work, $157 million for the national school lunch program, and $7 million for facilities of the National Agricultural Library.