District of Columbia and the term "United States" means the fifty States and the District of Columbia. HEALTH EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SEC. 315. From time to time the Secretary shall issue 42 U.S.C. 247 information related to public health, in the form of publications or otherwise, for the use of the public, and shall publish weekly reports of health conditions in the United States and other countries and other pertinent health information for the use of persons and institutions engaged in work related to the functions of the Service. NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SEC. 316. (a) The Secretary shall appoint, without regard to the civil service laws, a National Advisory Council on Comprehensive Health Planning Programs. The Council shall consist of the Secretary or his designee, who shall be the chairman, and sixteen members, not otherwise in the regular full-time employ of the United States, who are (1) leaders in the fields of the fundamental sciences, the medical sciences, or the organization, delivery, and financing of health care, (2) officials in State and areawide health planning agencies, (3) leaders in health care administration, or State or community or other public affairs, who are State or local officials, or (4) representatives of consumers of health care. At least six of the appointed members shall be individuals representing the consumers of health care, one shall be an official of a State health planning agency, one shall be an official of an area wide health planning agency, and one shall be a member of the National Advisory Council on Regional Medical Programs. (b) Each appointed member of the Council shall hold office for a term of four years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and except that the terms of office of the members first taking office. shall expire, as designated by the Secretary at the time of appointment, four at the end of the first year, four at the end of the second year, four at the end of the third year, and four at the end of the fourth year after the date of appointment. An appointed member shall not be eligible to serve continuously for more than two terms. (c) Appointed members of the Council, while attending meetings or conferences thereof or otherwise serving on the business of the Council, shall be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but at rates "Sec. 316 added by sec. 281 of P.L. 91-515. 42 U.S.C. 247a not exceeding the daily equivalent of the rate specified at the time of service for GS-18 of the general schedule, including traveltime, 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 5703 (b) of title 5 of the United States Code for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (d) The Council shall advise and assist the Secretary in the preparation of general regulations for, and as to policy matters arising with respect to, the administration of section 314 of this title, with increased emphasis on cooperation in the coordination of programs thereunder with the National Advisory Council on Regional Medical Programs, with particular attention to the relationship between the improved organization and delivery of health services and the financing of such services; and shall, in carrying out such functions, review, not less often than annually, the grants made under section 314 to determine their effectiveness in carrying out its purposes. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL AND VACCINATION ASSISTANCE SEC. 317. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and $90,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, to enable the Secretary to make grants to States and, with the approval of the State health authority, to political subdivisions or instrumentalities of the States under this subsection. In the award of such grants the Secretary shall give consideration to the relative extent. of the problems relating to one or more of the diseases referred to in subsection (b) (1) and to the levels of performance in preventing and controlling such diseases. Such grants may be used for meeting the cost of communicable disease control programs, including the cost of studies to determine the communicable disease control needs of communities and the means of best meeting such needs. (b) For the purposes of this subsection— (1) a "communicable disease control program" means a program which is designed and conducted so as to contribute to national protection against tuberculosis, venereal disease, rubella, measles, Rh disease, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough or other communicable diseases which are transmitted from State to State, are amenable to reduction, and which are determined by the Secretary on the recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council to be of national significance, and (2) the term "State" includes the Commonwealth 47 Sec. 317 amended by sec. 2 of P.L. 91-464. of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. (c) Payments under this section may be made in advance on the basis of estimates or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of underpayments, or overpayments, in such installments and on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. (d) The Secretary, at the request of a recipient of a grant under this section, may reduce such grant by the fair market value of any supplies (including vaccines and other preventive agents), or equipment furnished to such recipient and by the amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee to the recipient when the furnishing of such supplies or equipment, or of the detail of such officer or employee (as the case may be), is for the convenience of and at the request of such recipient and for the purpose of carrying out the program with respect to which the grant under this section is made. The amount by which any such grant is so reduced shall be available for payment by the Secretary of the costs incurred in furnishing the supplies, equipment, or personal services on which the reduction of such grant is based, but such amount shall be deemed a part of the grant to such recipient and shall, for the purposes of subsection (c), be deemed to have been paid to such agency. (e) Nothing in this section shall limit or otherwise restrict the use of funds which are granted to a State or to a political subdivision of a State under other provisions of this Act or other Federal law and which are available for the conduct of communicable disease con trol programs from being used in connection with programs assisted through grants under this section. (f) The Secretary shall submit an annual report to the President for submission to the Congress on the effectiveness of activities assisted under this section in preventing and controlling communicable diseases. (g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any State or any political subdivision or instrumentality of a State to have a communicable disease control or vaccination program which would require any person who objects to such treatment to be treated, or to have any child or ward of his treated. SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS FOR ASSISTING IN THE AREA-WIDE PLANNING OF HEALTH AND RELATED FACILITIES SEC. 318.48 *** Sec. 318 repealed effective July 1, 1967, by sec. 6 of P.L. 89-749. 42 U.S.C. 248 42 U.S.C. 249 PART C-HOSPITALS, MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS, AND HOSPITALS SEC. 321. The Surgeon General, pursuant to regulations, shall (a) 49 Control, manage, and operate all institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service, including minor repairs and maintenance, and provide for the care, treatment, and hospitalization of patients, including the furnishing of prosthetic and orthopedic devices, and tobacco; and from time to time, with the approval of the President, select suitable sites for and establish such additional institutions, hospitals, and stations in the States and possessions of the United States as in his judgment are necessary to enable the Service to discharge its functions and duties; (b) Provide for the transfer of Public Health Service patients, in the care of attendants where necessary, between hospitals and stations operated by the Service or between such hospitals and stations and other hospitals and stations in which Public Health Service patients may be received, and the payment of expenses of such transfer; (c) 50Provide for the disposal of articles produced by patients in the course of their curative treatment, either by allowing the patient to retain such articles or by selling them and depositing the money received therefor to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased; 51 (d) Provide for the disposal of money and effects, in the custody of the hospitals or stations, of deceased patients; and (e) 52 Provide, to the extent the Surgeon General determines that other public or private funds are not available therefor, for the payment of expenses of preparing and transporting the remains of, or the payment of reasonable burial expenses for, any patient dying in a hospital or station. CARE AND TREATMENT OF SEAMEN AND CERTAIN OTHER PERSONS SEC. 322. (a) The following persons shall be entitled, in accordance with regulations, to medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization without charge at hospitals and other stations of the Service: 40 Subsec. 321 (a) was amended by sec. 2(a) of P.L. 781. 80th Congress. 50 Subsec. 321 (c) was amended, by striking out the word "and" at the end of the subsection, by sec. 2(b) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. 51 Subsec. 321 (d) was amended, by striking out the period at the end of the subsection and inserting in lieu thereof "; and", by sec. 2(b) of P.L. 781. 80th Congress. 52 Subsec. 321 (e) was added by sec. 2(b) of P.L. 781, 80th Congress. (1) Seamen employed on vessels of the United States. registered, enrolled, and licensed under the maritime laws thereof, other than canal boats engaged in the coasting trade; (2) Seamen employed on United States or foreign flag vessels as employees of the United States through the War Shipping Administration; (3) Seamen, not enlisted or commissioned in the military or naval establishments, who are employed on State school ships or on vessels of the United States Government of more than five tons' burden; (4) Cadets at State maritime academies or on State training ships; (5) Seamen on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission and, upon application of their commanding officers, officers and crews of vessels of the Fish and Wildlife Service: (6) Enrollees in the United States Maritime Service on active duty and members of the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps; (7) 53 Seamen-trainees while participating in maritime training programs to develop or enhance their employability in the maritime industry; and (8) Persons who own vessels registered, enrolled, or licensed under the maritime laws of the United States, who are engaged in commercial fishing operations, and who accompany such vessels on such fishing operations, and a substantial part of whose services in connection with such fishing operations are comparable to services performed by seamen employed on such vessel or on vessels engaged in similar operations. (b) When suitable accommodations are available, seamen on foreign-flag vessels may be given medical, surgical, and dental treatment and hospitalization on application of the master, owner, or agent of the vessel at hospitals and other stations of the Service at rates fixed by regulations. All expenses connected with such treatment, including burial in the event of death, shall be paid by such master, owner, or agent. No such vessel shall be granted clearance until such expenses are paid or their payment appropriately guaranteed to the Collector of Customs. (c) Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any person detained by that Service, may be treated and cared for by the Public Health Service. (d) Persons not entitled to treatment and care at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service may, in accordance with regulations of the Surgeon General, be Subsec. 322(a) (7) amended by sec. 10(c) of P.L. 90–174. |