Purpose of the Act

To amend the PHS Act to provide for research relating to psychiatric disorders and to aid in the development of more effective methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of such disorders, and for other purposes. To amend the PHS Act to authorize grants to the States for surveying their hospitals and public health centers and for planning construction of additional facilities, and to authorize grants to assist in such construction. To amend the PHS Act to support research and training in diseases of the heart and circulation, and to aid the States in the development of community programs for the control of these diseases, and for other purposes. To amend the PHS Act to provide for, foster, and aid in coordinating research relating to dental diseases and conditions, and for other purposes. To amend the Hospital Survey ana Construction Act (title VI of the PHS Act), to extend its duration and provide greater financial assistance in the construction of hospitals, and for other purposes. To amend the PHS Act to support research and training in matters relating to arthritis and rheumatism, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, poliomyelitis, blindness, leprosy, and other diseases. To amend the hospital survey and construction provisions of the PHS Act to provide assistance to the States for surveying the need for diagnosis or treatment centers, for hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, for rehabilitation facilities, and for nursing homes, and to provide assistance in the construction of such facilities through grants to public and nonprofit agencies, and for other purposes. To provide for a continuing survey and special studies of sickness and disability in the United States, and for periodic reports of the results thereof, and for other purposes. To confer upon Alaska autonomy in the field of mental health, transfer from the Federal Government to the Territory the fiscal and functional responsibilities for the hospitalization of committed mental patients, and for other purposes. (Includes PHS grants to Alaska for mental health program.) To amend the PHS Act so as to provide for grants-in-aid to non-Federal public and nonprofit institutions for the constructing and equipping of facilities for research in the sciences related to health. To amend title III of the PHS Act, and for other purposes. (Establishes in the PHS the National Library of Medicine.)

Public law

Public Law 84-911, Aug. 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 923), S. 3958, S. Rept. 2070, H. Rept. 2569.

Public Law 87-868, Oct. 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1155), H.R. 10541, H. Rept. 1835, S. Rept. 1907.

Public Law 88-129, Sept. 24, 1963 (77 Stat. 164). H.R. 12, H. Rept. 109, S. Rept. 485.

Public Law 88-164, Oct. 31, 1963 (77 Stat. 282), S. 1576, S. Rept. 180, H. Rept. 694, C. Rept. 862.

Public Law 88-443, Aug. 18, 1964 (78 Stat. 447), H.R. 10041, H. Rept. 1340, S. Rept. 1274.

Public Law 88-581. Sept. 4, 1964 (78 Stat. 908), H.R. 11241, H. Rept. 1549, S. Rept. 1378.

Public Law 89-109, Aug. 5, 1965 (79 Stat. 435), S. 510 (H.R. 2986), S. Rept. 117, C. Rept. 676.

Purpose of the Act

To improve the educational quality of schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy, to authorize grants under that Act to such schools for the awarding of scholarships to needy students, and to extend expiring provisions of that Act for student loans and for aid in construction of teaching facilities for students in such schools and schools for other health professions, and for other purposes.

To provide for a program of grants to assist in meeting the need for adequate medical library services and facilities.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote and assist in the extension and improvement of comprehensive health planning and public health services, to provide for a more effective use of available Federal funds for such planning and services, and for other purposes.

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, ana for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and expand the authorizations for grants for comprehensive health planning and services, to broaden and improve the authorization for research and demonstrations relating to the delivery of health services, to improve the performance of clinical laboratories, and to authorize cooperative activities between the Public Health Service hospitals and community facilities, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve the programs relating to the training of nursing and other health professions and allied health professions personnel, the program relating to student aid for such personnel, and the program re latins to health research facilities, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act so as to extend and improve the provisions relating to regional medical programs, to extend the authorization of grants for health of migratory agricultural workers, to provide for specialized facilities for alcoholics and narcotic addicts, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act so as to extend for an additional period the authority to make formula grants to schools of public health, project grants for graduate training in public health and traineeships for professional public health personnel.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of assistance for health services for domestic migrant agricultural workers, and for other purposes.

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Public law

Purpose of the Act

To amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend and improve the program of assistance under that Act for community mental health centers and facilities for the treatment of alcoholics and narcotic addicts, to establish programs for mental health of children, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve and extend the provisions relating to assistance to medical libraries and related instrumentalities, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise, extend, and improve the program established by title VI of such Act, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authorization for grants for communicable disease control and vaccination assistance.

To amend the Public Health Service Act and other laws to provide increased research into, and prevention of, drug abuse and drug dependence; to provide for treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers and drug dependent persons; and to strengthen existing law enforcement authority in the field of drug abuse.

To amend titles III and IX of the Public Health Service Act so as to revise, extend, and improve the programs of research, investigation, education, training, and demonstration authorized thereunder, and for other purposes.

To amend the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1968 to assist the States in developing a plan for the provision of comprehensive services to persons affected by mental retardation and other developmental disabilities originating in childhood to assist the States in the provision of such services in accordance with such plan, to assist in the construction of facilities to provide the services needed to carry out such plan, and for other purposes.

To amend title VII of the Public Health Service Act to establish eligibility of new schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, pharmacy, optometry, veterinary medicine, and podiatry for institutional grants under section 771 thereof, to extend and improve the program relating to training of personnel in the allied health professions, and for other purposes. To promote public health and welfare by expanding, improving, and better coordinating the family planning services and population research activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes. (Adds Title X to the Public Health Service Act.) To provide a comprehensive Federal program for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the assignment of commissioned officers of - the Public Health Service to areas with critical medical manpower shortages, to encourage health personnel to practice in areas where shortages of such personnel exist, and for other purposes.

Purpose of the Act

To amend the PHS Act so as to strengthen the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health in order more effectively to carry out the national effort against cancer.

To amend the PHS Act to extend and revise the program of assistance under that Act for the control and prevention of communicable diseases.

To amend the PHS Act to provide assistance for programs for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Cooley's anemia.

To amend title VII of the PHS Act to provide increased manpower for the health professions, and for other purposes.

To amend the PHS Act to improve the program of medical assistance to areas with health manpower shortages, and for other purposes.

To amend the PHS Act to enlarge the authority of the National Heart and Lung Institute in order to advance the national attack against diseases of the heart and blood vessels, the lungs, and blood, and for other purposes.

To amend the PHS Act to designate the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases as the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and for other purposes.

To amend title VIII of the PHS Act to

Erovide for training increased numers of nurses.

To amend the PHS Act to provide for the control of sickle cell anemia.

To extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for 1 yr.

To extend the Clean Air Act, as amended, for 1 yr.

To extend through fiscal year 1974 certain expiring appropriations authorizations in the Public Health Service Act, the" Community Mental Health Centers Act, and the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance and encouragement for the development of comprehensive area emergency medical services systems.

To amend the PHS Act to provide assistance and encouragement for the establishment and expansion of health maintenance organizations.

To provide financial assistance for research activities for the study of sudden death syndrome.

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the registration of practitioners conducting narcotic treatment programs.

To extend through fiscal year 1974 certain expiring appropriations authorizations in the Public Health Service Act, the Community Mental Centers Act, and the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act.

To amend the PHS Act to provide for the establishment of a National Institute on Aging.