(b) To afford to the medical profession and the medical institutions of the Nation, through such cooperative arrangements, the opportunity of making available to their patients the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases; and

(c) By these means, to improve generally the health manpower and facilities available to the Nation.

The act authorizes $50 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $90 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and $200 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, for grants to assist public or nonprofit private universities, medical schools, research institutions, and other public or nonprofit private institutions and agencies in planning, in conducting feasibility studies, and in operating pilot projects for the establishment, of regional medical programs of research, training, and demonstration activities for carrying out the purposes of this title.

The act provides for a National Advisory Council to advise and assist the Surgeon General with respect to the preparation of regulations and determination of policies for administration of this title.

P. EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AMENDMENTS OF 1965

(PUBLIC LAW 89-253, APPROVED OCT. 9, 1965)

On April 12, 13, 14, 15, 29, and 30, 1965, hearings were held before the Subcommittee on the War on Poverty Program, of the Committee on Education and Labor, on "examination of the facts which have developed under the administration of the act" (the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964). The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 854 pages.

H.R. 8283, the "Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1965," was introduced on May 19, 1965, by Representative Sam M. Gibbons, of Florida. The bill was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. It was reported in the House of Representatives on May 27, 1965 (Rept. No. 428). It passed the House on July 22, 1965. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on August 13, 1965 (Rept. No. 599). It passed the Senate, amended, on August 19, 1965; and on the same date the Senate asked for a conference. The House agreed to a conference on August 31, 1965. The conference report was filed on September 14, 1965 (Rept. No. 1001). This conference report was recommitted on September 15, 1965. A second conference report was filed on September 22, 1965 (Rept. No. 1061). The House agreed to this conference report on September 23, 1965. The Senate agreed to this conference report on September 24, 1965. The act was approved by the President on October 9, 1965, and became Public Law 89-253.

Following is a summary of the educational and training features of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 :

Provides for mobilizing the human and financial resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States by opening to everyone opportunity for education and training and opportunity to work.

Title I-Youth programs.-Establishes a Job Corps within the Office of Economic Opportunity (established by title VI) for young men and women aged 16 through 21. Authorizes the Director of the

Office to, among other activities, provide education and vocational training to enrollees in the Corps, and provide for programs of useful work experience and other appropriate activities for enrollees.

Provides for assistance and cooperation by the Director with State and local agencies and private nonprofit organizations in developing State and community work-training programs for young men and women aged 16 through 21. Requires that to the maximum extent feasible these programs shall be coordinated with programs of training and education sponsored by public educational agencies. Authorizes the Director to enter into agreements to pay part or all of the cost of a State or local program which meets certain requirements. Includes as one of these requirements determination by the Director that the program will increase the employability of the enrollees by providing work experience and training in occupational skills or pursuits in which there is reasonable expectation of employment, or which will enable student enrollees to resume or maintain school attendance.

Provides for grants for work-study programs to promote the parttime employment of students in institutions of higher education who are from low-income families and are in need of earnings to pursue their education. Authorizes the Director to enter into agreements with institutions of higher education for payment by him of part of the compensation of students employed under such work-study programs. Sets forth the conditions for such agreements, including the requirement that the institution shall extend (from sources other than payments by the Director) for the employment of its students an amount no less than its average annual expenditure for such employment during the 3 fiscal years preceding the agreement.

Title II-Urban and rural community action programs.--Authorizes the Director to make grants and enter into contracts for financial and technical assistance, research, training, and demonstrations to stimulate urban and rural communities to combat poverty through community action programs. Requires that such programs receiving financial assistance shall provide improved services and other activities and facilities in fields within the purposes of this title, including remedial and other noncurricular education, employment, job training and counseling, health, and vocational rehabilitation.

Provides for grants to States which have State plans approved by the Director for adult basic education programs.

Title V-Work experience programs.-Provides for job training for unemployed adults receiving public assistance.

Title VI-Administration and coordination.-Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Economic Opportunity headed by a Director. Authorizes the Director to recruit, select, train, and assign "volunteers in service to America" to assist in carrying out certain purposes of the act. Denies authorization by this act of any Federal control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system.

Following is a digest of the Economic Opportunity Amendments of

1965:

Title I-Youth programs.-The Director shall be required to prescribe regulations preventing displacement of employed workers of interfering with existing contracts.

The Director is prohibited from making payments to any individual or organization solely as compensation for the service of referring names of candidates for enrollment in the Job Corps.

Certain Cuban refugees who arrived in the United States subsequent to January 1, 1959, shall be considered permanent residents of the United States and are therefore eligible to enroll in the Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs.

The requirement that Job Corps enrollees must execute affidavits disclaiming subversive beliefs and membership in subversive organizations shall be eliminated, but the requirement that enrollees subscribe to an oath of allegiance is retained (with the exception of Cuban refugees).

The coverage of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act is extended to include Job Corps enrollees killed or injured while on authorized travel.

The requirement that 40 percent of the Job Corps enrollees be involved in activities concerned with public natural resources or public recreation areas is altered to require that 40 percent of the male enrollees be involved in such activities.

The period during which work-training and work-study programs may be financed with 90 percent Federal assistance is extended for 1 year.

Title II-Urban and rural community action programs.-A community action program is required to include provisions for reasonable access of the public to books and records, including reasonable opportunity for public hearings at the request of appropriate community groups.

The Director is permitted to authorize grants for special programs directed at the needs of the chronically unemployed poor. These programs, in addition to other services, would enable such persons to participate in projects for community betterment and conservation of natural resources.

The period during which community action programs may be regularly financed by 90 percent Federal assistance is extended for 1 year. The Director is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations establishing criteria for the modification of Federal assistance requirements in certain situations and for the reduction of the non-Federal contribution to a community action program where the normal requirement would impose an unnecessary hardship.

The Governor's power of veto over work-training programs and community action programs, and adult education programs is retained. However, in the event of the disapproval of a plan by a Governor, the Director can reconsider it, and if he finds it fully consistent with the provisions and purposes of the act, can override the Governor's veto.

Consultation with appropriate State agencies on the development, conduct, and administration of such programs is encouraged.

The Director is authorized to make a grant or contract directly to a private nonprofit agency where a community action program already exists upon a showing that a separate grant or contract is desirable and practical. When such application is received, the Director must within 5 days give notice of its receipt to the existing community action agency and the Governor of that State.

The Federal share of the cost of State plans for adult basic education programs will be continued at 90 percent for 1 year. Up to 5

percent of the funds appropriated for such programs may be used for the training of adult education instructors.

The authority of the Director to assist in the establishment of programs to meet the needs of migrating workers is amended to clarify the scope of this assistance and the institutions through which it may be granted.

Title V-Work experience programs. The definition of unemployment is amended to include workers in farm families with less than $1,200 net annual income.

Title VI-Administration and coordination.-Volunteers in service. to America will be assigned to programs authorized, supported, or of a character eligible for assistance under this act and they will receive improved Federal Employees Compensation Act coverage.

Each volunteer is required to take and subscribe to an affirmative loyalty oath.

It is the intent of Congress that whenever feasible the special problems of the elderly poor should be considered in the development, conduct, and administration of programs under this act.

The National Defense Education Act is amended to authorize a moratorium of up to 3 years on the repayment of student loans to Volunteers in Service to America.

The Director is required to adopt appropriate administrative measures to assure that benefits of this act will be distributed equally between residents of rural and urban areas.

Q. LOAN SERVICE OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOR DEAF PERSONS

(PUBLIC LAW 89-258, APPROVED OCT. 19, 1965)

S. 2232, a bill to amend the act entitled "An act to provide in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for a loan service of captioned films for the deaf," was introduced by Senators Claiborne Pell, of Rhode Island, and Edmund Muskie, of Maine, on June 30, 1965. The bill was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Hearings on the bill were held before a special subcommittee of that committee on August 10, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 82 pages. S. 2232 was reported from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on August 26, 1965 (Rept. No. 649). It passed the Senate on August 31, 1965. It was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor on September 1, 1965.

On September 14, 1965, the Special Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor held hearings on H.R. 10158, H.R. 10768 and other bills similar to S. 2232. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 18 pages. On September 20, 1965, the Committee on Education and Labor reported S. 2232 (Rept. 1034). The bill passed the House, under suspension of the rules, on October 5, 1965. It was approved by the President on October 19, 1965, and became Public Law 89-258.

The act amends the act entitled "An act to provide in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, for a loan service of captioned films for the deaf," approved September 2, 1958, as amended, in order to further provide for a loan service of educational media for the deaf.

The act directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a loan service of captioned films and other educational media

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for the purpose of making such materials available in the United States for nonprofit purposes to deaf persons, parents of deaf persons, and other persons directly involved in activities for the advancement of the deaf in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary.

In carrying out the provisions of the act, the Secretary is given authority to

(1) Acquire films (or rights thereto) and other educational media by purchase, lease, or gift;

(2) Acquire by lease or purchase equipment necessary to the administration of this act;

(3) Provide for the captioning of films;

(4) Provide for the distribution of captioned films and other educational media and equipment through State schools for the deaf and such other agencies as the Secretary may deem appropriate to serve as local or regional centers for such distribution;

(5) Provide for the conduct of research in the use of educational and training films and other educational media for the deaf, for the production and distribution of educational and training films and other educational media for the deaf and the training of persons in the use of such films and media;

(6) Utilize the facilities and services of other governmental agencies; and

(7) Accept gifts, contributions, and voluntary and uncompensated services of individuals and organizations.

For the purpose of advising and assisting the Secretary with respect to the education of the deaf, the act creates a National Advisory Committee on Education of the Deaf, which shall consist of 12 persons, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service laws.

The membership of the Advisory Committee must include educators of the deaf, persons interested in education of the deaf, educators of the hearing, and deaf individuals.

R. NATIONAL VOCATIONAL STUDENT LOAN INSURANCE ACT OF 1965

(PUBLIC LAW 89-287, APPROVED OCT. 22, 1965)

The National Vocational Student Loan Insurance Act of 1965 was introduced as H.R. 6468, by Representative John H. Dent, of Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1965. The bill was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Hearings on the bill were held before the Select Committee on Education, of the Committee on Education and Labor, on April 5, 6, and 7, 1965. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 187 pages.

A new bill, H.R. 7743, was introduced by Representative John H. Dent, on April 29, 1965, and was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. The bill was reported from that committee on May 6, 1965 (Rept. No. 308). It passed the House, under suspension of the rules, on June 21, 1965. It was reported in the Senate, from the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on September 21, 1965 (Rept. No. 758). It passed the Senate, amended, on September 28, 1965. The House agreed to the Senate amendments on October 8, 1965. The bill was approved by the President on October 22, 1965, and became Public Law 89-287.