TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1953 3 2. Public Health Service, 1966 4 Table A.—Major amendments to the PHS and related acts 9 Table B.—Reports to Congress from HEW required by the PHS Table C.—Authorizations of appropriations specified in the PHS III. Selected provisions of health laws: 1. Abortions: Anticoercion provisions 45 2. Abortions: Limitation on Federal funding 48 4. Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration 57 5. Advisory committees: Federal Advisory Committee Act 59 6. Advisory committees: Duration of advisory committees under the Public Health Service Act and other health laws 67 7. Advisory committees: Requirement for nonpartisan appoint- ments for advisory committees 68 8. Allied health personnel: Studies and statistical report on 9. Arthritis: National Arthritis Act of 1974 72 10. Availability of appropriations 77 11. Budget Act: Selected provisions 78 13. Closure or transfer of control of facilities of the Public Health 14. Developmental disability definition 88 15. Diabetes: National Diabetes Mellitus Research and Educa- 16. Digestive diseases: National Commission on Digestive Dis- 17. Disease prevention and health promotion 96 18. Emergency medical services: Funds for the administration of 19. Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 20. Foreign medical graduates: Immigration and Nationality Act and related provisions of law 101 21. Health and nutrition demonstration projects 105 22. Lighthouse keepers: Health services 107 25. National Health Planning and Resources Development Act 26. Nurses: Information respecting the supply and distribution of and requirements for nurses 122 27. Office of Inspector General, DHEW 124 29. Tax treatment of cancellation of loans 135 30. Tax treatment of scholarships 136 (m) 1. Reorganization Plan No. 1 Of 1953 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Section 1. Creation of Department; Secretary.—There is hereby established an executive department, which shall be known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Department). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this reorganization plan referred to as the Secretary), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advise and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary. Sec. 2.1 Under Secretary and Assistant Secretaries.—There shall be in the Department an Under Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and five 2 Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for under secretaries and assistant secretaries, respectively, of executive departments. The Under Secretary (or, during the absence or disability of the Under Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Under Secretary, an Assistant Secretary determined according to such order as the Secretary shall prescribe) shall act as Secretary during the absence or disability of the Secretary or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Secretary. Sec. 3. * * *. Sec. 4. Commissioner of Social Security.—There shall be in the Department a Commissioner of Social Security who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such functions concerning social security and public welfare as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter fixed by law for grade GS-18 of the general schedule established by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. Sec. 5. Transfers to the Department.—All functions of the Federal Security Administrator are hereby transferred to the Secretary. All agencies of the Federal Security Agency, together with their respective functions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made 1 Sec. 2 amended and sec. 3 deleted by sec. 4 of P.L. 89-115. 3 Sec. 1(b) of P.L. 89-234, provided for an additional Assistant Secretary of HEW, but did not specifically amend P.L. 83-13. |