INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 13196 A BILL TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT TO COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE WALTER ROGERS, Texas SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL, Maryland TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma LEO W. O'BRIEN, New York HORACE R. KORNEGAY, North Carolina FRED D. ROONEY, Pennsylvania DAVID E. SATTERFIELD III, Virginia J. OLIVA HUOT, New Hampshire CHARLES P. FARNSLEY, Kentucky WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois T A Godwin, Dr. John T., on behalf of American Society of Clinical Hovde, Ruth, on behalf of American Society of Medical Technologists_ Kelly, James, Comptroller, Department of Health, Education, and Kinsinger, Robert E., on behalf of American Association of Junior Lee, Dr. Philip, Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, Taussig, Dr. Helen, president, American Heart Association. Ackley, Naida, telegram from__. 130 III Additional information submitted for the record by-Continued American Optometric Association, statement of Dr. V. Eugene American Public Health Association, statement of Atwell, Dr. Robert J., director, School of Allied Medical Services, Cost estimates for proposed Moss amendments to H. R. 13196-- Estimated new obligation authority required for 1967-69 under Page 126 127 129 94 Huntting, Inez, telegram from____ 130 Latimer, Ruth M., director, physical therapy educational program, 127 ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS PERSONNEL TRAINING ACT OF 1966 TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Harley O. Staggers (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The hearings today are on H.R. 13196, which I introduced at the request of the administration to carry out recommendations of the President made in his message on domestic health and education. This bill is designed to increase the opportunities for training of medical technologists and personnel in other allied health professions, and to improve the educational quality of the schools training such personnel. The bill also proposes fairly substantial modifications in the student loan programs established under the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963, as amended, and the Nurse Training Act of 1964. The bill provides for grants for construction of teaching facilities for allied health professions personnel, provides grants to improve the quality of training centers, authorizes traineeships for training of teachers, supervisors, and specialists, and provides grants for projects to develop, demonstrate, or evaluate curriculums for the training of new types of health technologists. The provisions relating to student loans in general would authorize the transfer of the funding of these loans to the private sector. Recent action taken by a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor during its consideration of proposed amendments to the National Defense Education Act raises some questions in my mind as to whether this change would be desirable if a similar change is not made in the National Defense Education Act. I hope that this point will be developed in the hearings. At this point there will be included the text of the bill, H.R. 13196, and agency reports thereon. (The documents referred to follow:) [H.R. 13196, 89th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the opportunities for training of medical technologists and personnel in other allied health professions, to improve the educational quality of the schools training such allied health professions personnel, and to strengthen and improve the existing student loan programs for medical, osteopathic, dental, podiatry, pharmacy, optometric, and nursing students, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966”. 1 |