succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $250,000 for carrying out the purposes of this section. GRANTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS IN CORRECTIONAL REHABILITATION SEC. 16. (a) (1) The Secretary is authorized, with the 29 USC 42 advice of the National Advisory Council on Correctional Manpower and Training, established by subsection (b) of this section, to make grants to pay part of the cost of carrying out a program of research and study of the personnel practices and current and projected personnel needs in the field of correctional rehabilitation and of the availability and adequacy of the educational and training resources for persons in, or preparing to enter such field, including but not limited to the availability of educational opportunities for persons in, or preparing to enter, such field, the adequacy of the existing curriculum and teaching methods and practices involved in the preparation of persons to work in such field, the effectiveness of present methods of recruiting personnel for such field and the extent to which personnel in the field are utilized in the manner which makes the best use of their qualifications. Such a program of research and study is to be on a scale commensurate with the problem. (2) Such grants may be made to one or more organizations, but only on condition that the organization will undertake and conduct, or if more than one organization is to receive such grants, only on condition that such organizations have agreed among themselves to undertake and conduct, a coordinated program of research into and study of all aspects of the resources, needs, and practices referred to in paragraph (1). (3) As used in paragraph (2), the term "organization" means a nongovernmental agency, organization, or commission, composed of representatives of leading professional associations, organizations, or agencies active in in the field of corrections. (b) (1) There is hereby established in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Advisory Council on Correctional Manpower and Training, consisting of the Secretary, or his designee, who shall be chairman, and twelve members, not otherwise in the regular full-time employ of the United States, appointed without regard to the civil service laws by the Secretary after consultation with the Attorney General of the United States. The twelve appointed members shall be selected from among leaders in fields concerned with correctional rehabilitation or in public affairs, four of whom shall be selected from among State or local correctional services. In selecting persons for appointment to the Council, consideration shall be given to such factors, among others, as (1) familiarity with correctional manpower problems, and (2) particular concern with the 60-073-66-vol. 2-14 29 USC 31 note training of persons in or preparing to enter the field of correctional rehabilitation. (2) The Council shall consider all applications for grants under this section and shall make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to approval of applications for and the amounts of grants under this section. (3) Appointed members of the Council, while attending meetings or conferences thereof or otherwise serving on business of the Council, shall be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, including travel time, 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 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (c) For carrying out the purposes of this section there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, the sum of $500,000 to be used for a grant or grants to help initiate the research and study provided for in this section; and the sum of $800,000 for each of the two succeeding fiscal years for the making of such grants as may be necessary to carry the research and study to completion. The terms of any such grant shall provide that the research and study shall be completed not later than three years from the date it is inaugurated; that the grantee shall file annual reports with the Secretary, the Congress, the Governors of the several States and the President, among others the grantee may select; and that the final report shall be similarly filed. (d) Any grantee agency, organization, or commission is authorized to accept additional financial support from private or other public sources to assist in carrying on the project authorized by this section. SHORT TITLE SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the "Vocational Rehabilitation Act". 166. 167. 168. 168a. ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL (Selected Excerpts from and Citations to the U.S. Code Pertaining to the Administration of St. Elizabeths Hospital) Title 24 U.S. Code Chapter 4.-SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT; PENSIONS, MONEYS, AND APPROPRIATIONS Superintendent: disbursing agent; pension money of inmates_. Page 207 207 208 208 208 209 169. Disposition of money paid for care of patients_ 209 169a. Facilities for feeding employees and others; disposition of pro- Disposition of moneys belonging to deceased inmates; claims 210 178, 179. Repealed. 180. 181. American Red Cross buildings on hospital reservation_. 210 211 182. 183. Same; money; deposit, investment, and expenditure of income.- 211 211 184. 185. Same; realty or tangible personalty; use, lease, liquidation, etc.- 211 212 191. INMATES; BURDEN OF EXPENSES THEREOF; DETENTION OF INSANE 213 191a. Repealed. 192. Admission; insane prisoners of war and interned persons__. Same; insane inmates of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Transfer of American citizens adjudged insane in Canal Zone___ 215 196b. 197. Transfer of persons adjudged insane in Virgin Islands.. 215 216 198. 199. Care of insane natives of Philippine Islands serving in Army- 216 216 200. Transfer of part of appropriations to public hospitals for support 217 201-210. Omitted. 210a. 210b. 210c. Commitment of certain persons from Virginia and Maryland for 217 218 219 Page 210d. 210e. Authorization to receive persons for observation and diagnosis__ 219 219 210f. Transfer of military personnel_ 220 210g. Persons entitled to care and treatment in a Veterans' Administra- 220 211h. 211. Payment of expenses of transfer_ 220 Admission of insane persons accused of crime.. 220 211a. Admission of insane convicts. 220 211b. Insane persons accused of crime; delivery to court on restoration 221 212. Transfer of insane convicts__. 221 213. Accommodation of insane convict in State asylums; compensa- Chapter 17.-HOSPITAL, DOMICILIARY, AND MEDICAL CARE 616. Hospital care by other agencies of the United States- - Sec. Title 42, U.S. Code Chapter 6A.-THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 222. Care of service patients at Saint Elizabeths Hospital__ 249. Medical care and treatment of seamen and certain other persons; for- 251. Medical examination and treatment of Federal employees... Patients are now admitted to St. Elizabeths Hospital under the following applicable statutory citations: 1 These categories as beneficiaries of PHS are admitted under authority of 42 U.S.C. 222. 2 Section 1156, Title 22, U.S. Code authorizes Secretary of State to provide hospital care for Foreign Service personnel but not specifically in Saint Elizabeths. ESTABLISHMENT AND MANAGEMENT; PENSIONS, MONEYS, § 161. Establishment. There shall be in the District of Columbia a Government hospital for the insane, which shall be known and designated as Saint Elizabeths Hospital, and its objects shall be the most humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the District of Columbia. (R.S. § 4838; July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 309; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 201, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1098.) § 165. Superintendent; disbursing agent; pension money of inmates. The chief executive officer of Saint Elizabeths Hospital shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, appoint a responsible disbursing agent for the institution, who shall give a bond satisfactory to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the said superintendent shall engage and discharge all needful and useful employees in the care of the insane and all laborers on the farm and determine their wages and duties. The said disbursing agent, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have the custody of and pay out all moneys appropriated by Congress for Saint Elizabeths Hospital, or otherwise received for the purposes of the hospital, and all moneys received by the superintendent in behalf of the hospital or its patients, and keep an accurate account or accounts thereof. The said disbursing agent shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States, under the direction of the superintendent, all funds which may be intrusted to the latter by or for the use of patients, which shall be kept in a separate account; and the said disbursing agent is authorized to draw therefrom, under the direction of the said superintendent, from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe, for the use of such patients, but not to exceed for any one patient the amount intrusted to the superintendent on account of such patient. During the time that any pensioner shall be an inmate of Saint Elizabeths Hospital all money due or becoming due upon his or her pension shall be paid by the Veterans' Administration to the superintendent or disbursing agent of the hospital, upon a certificate by such superintendent that the pensioner is an inmate of the hospital and is living, and such pension money shall be by said superintendent or disbursing agent disbursed and used, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, for the benefit of the pensioner, and, in case of a male pensioner, his wife, minor children, and dependent parents, or, if a female pensioner, her minor children, if any, in the order named, and to pay his or her board and maintenance in the hospital, the remainder of such pension money, if any, to be placed to the credit of the pensioner and to be paid to the pensioner or the guardian of the pensioner |