(2) provide the Commission with such full-time professional and clerical staff, such information, and the services of such consultants as may be necessary to assist it in carrying out effectively its function under this section. (e) Members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the Federal Government shall serve as members of the Commission without compensation in addition to that received in their regular public employment. Members of the Commission who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government shall each receive the daily equivalent of the rate in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day (including traveltime) they are engaged in the performance of their duties as members of the Commission. All members, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as such expenses are authorized by section 5703, title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (f) The Commission shall survey Federal, State, and local health programs and activities relating to arthritis and assess the adequacy, technical soundness, and coordination of such programs and activities. All Federal departments and agencies administering health programs and activities relating to arthritis shall provide such cooperation and assistance relating to such programs and activities as is reasonably necessary for the Commission to make such survey and assessment. (g) The Commission shall formulate a long-range plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Arthritis Plan") with specific recommendations for the use and organization of national resources to combat arthritis. The Arthritis Plan shall be based on a survey investigating the incidence and prevalence of arthritis and its economic and social consequences, and on an evaluation of scientific information respecting, and the national resources capacle of dealing with arthritis. The Arthritis Plan shall include a comprehensive program for the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Institute") and plans for Federal, State, and local programs, which program and programs shall, as appropriate, provide for— (1) investigation into the epidemiology, etiology, and prevention and control of arthritis, including the social, environmental, behavior, nutritional, and biological control of arthritis; (2) studies and research into the basic biological processes and and mechanisms involved with arthritis, including abnormalities of the immune, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, urogenital, pulmonary, and nervous systems, the skin, and the eyes; (3) research into the development, trial, and evaluation of techniques, orthopedic and other surgical procedures, and drugs (including drugs intended for use by children) used in the diagnosis, early detection, treatment, prevention, and control of arthritis; (4) programs that will apply scientific and technological methodologies and processes involving biological, physical, and engineering sciences to deal with all facets of arthritis, including traumatic arthritis; (5) programs for the conduct and direction of field studies large-scale testing, evaluation, and demonstration of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and control approaches to arthritis, including studies of the effectiveness and use of home care programs, mobile care units, community rehabilitation facilities, and other appropriate community public health and social services; (6) studies of the feasibility of, and possible benefits accruing from, the organization and training of teams of health and allied health professionals in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from arthritis; (7) programs to evaluate available resources for the rehabilitation oi individuals who suffer from arthritis; (8) programs to develop new and improved methods of screening and referral for arthritis and particularly for the early detection of arthritis; (9) programs to establish standards and criteria for measurement of the severity and rehabilitative potential of disabilities resulting from arthritis; (10) programs to develop a uniform descriptive vocabulary for use in basic and clinical research and a standardized clinical patient data set for arthritis to standardize collection, storage, and retrieval of research and treatment data in order to facilitate collaborative and comparative studies of large patient populations; (11) programs to establish a system for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data useful in the screening, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of arthritis, including the establishment of a national data storage bank to collect, catalog, and store, and facilitate retrieval and dissemination of information as to the practical application of research and other activities pertaining to arthritis; (12) programs for the education (including continuing education programs and development of new techniques and curricula) of scientists, bioengineers, physicians engaged in general practice, the practice of family medicine, or other primary care specialties, surgeons, including orthopedic surgeons, and other health and allied health professionals and educators in the fields and specialties requisite to screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and rehabilitation of individuals who suffer from arthritis; (13) programs for public education and counseling relating to arthritis, including public information campaigns on current developments in diagnostic and treatment procedures and programs to discourage the promotion and use of unapproved and ineffective diagnostic, preventive, treatment, and control methods and unapproved and ineffective drugs and devices; (14) a program for the acceleration of international cooperation in and exchange of knowledge on research, screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of arthritis; and (15) coordination of the research programs relevant to arthritis of other Institutes of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and other Federal and non-Federal entities. (h) The Commission may hold such hearings, take such testimony, and sit at such time and places as it deems advisable. (i)(1) The Commission shall prepare for each of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health whose activities are to be affected by the Arthritis Plan estimates of necessary expenditures to carry out each such Institute's part of the comprehensive program included in the Plan. The estimates shall be prepared for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and for each of the next two years. (2) Within five days after the Budget is transmitted by the President to Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and for each of the next two fiscal years, the Secretary shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate, and the Committee on Commerce and Health of the United States House of Representatives an estimate of the amounts requested for arthritis research by each of the Institutes for which estimates were prepared under paragraph (1) and a comparison of such amounts with such estimates. (j)(1) The Commission shall publish and transmit directly to the Congress (without prior administrative approval or review by the Office of Management and Budget or any other Federal department or agency) the Arthritis Plan within two hundred and ten days after the date on which funds are first appropriated for the Commission. (2) The Commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 1976. (k) There are authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out the purposes of this section $2,000,000. Legislative History Senate Report No. 93-1251 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare). Oct. 11, considered and passed Senate. Dec. 18, considered and passed House, amended. Dec. 19, Senate concurred in House amendment. 10. AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED BY THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT AND THE MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1963 Section 601 Of Medical Faculties Construction And (Public Law 91-296) TITLE VI—AVAILABILITY OF Sec. 601. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless enacted after the enactment of this Act expressly in limitation of the provisions of this section, funds appropriated for any fiscal year to carry out any program for which appropriations are authorized by the Public Health Service Act (Public Law 410, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended) or the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (Public Law 88-164, as amended) shall remain available for obligation and expenditure until the end of such fiscal year. Legislative History House Reports: No. 91-262 (Comm. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) and No. 91-1167 (Comm. of Conference). Senate Report No. 91-657 (Comm. on Labor and Public Welfare), Vol. 115 (1969): June 4, considered and passed House. Apr. 7, considered and passed Senate, amended. June 25, passed House over veto. (77) 11. BUDGET ACT: SELECTED PROVISIONS (Public Law 93-344) DEFINITIONS Sec. 3. (a) In General.—For purposes of this Act— (1) The terms "budget outlays" and "outlays" mean, with respect to any fiscal year, expenditures and net lending of funds under budget authority during such year. (2) The term "budget authority" means authority provided by law to enter into obligations which will result in immediate or future outlays involving Government funds, except that such term does not include authority to insure or guarantee the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government. (3) The term "tax expenditures" means those revenue losses attributable to provisions of the Federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability; and the term "tax expenditures budget" means an enumeration of such tax expenditures. (4) The term "concurrent resolution on the budget" means— (A) a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as provided in section 301; (B) a concurrent resolution reaffirming or revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as provided in section 310; and (C) any other concurrent resolution revising the congressional budget for the United States Government for a fiscal year as described in section 304. (5) The term "appropriation Act" means an Act referred to in section 105 of title 1, United States Code. NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY, NEW SPENDING AUTHORITY AND REVENUE LEGISLATION MUST BE WITHIN APPROPRIATE LEVELS Sec. 311. (a) Legislation Subject To Point Of Order.—After the Congress has completed action on the concurrent resolution on the budget required to be reported under section 310(a) for a fiscal year, and, if a reconciliation bill or resolution, or both, for such fiscal year are required to be reported under section 310(c), after that bill has been enacted into law or that resolution has been agreed to, it shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, resolution, or amendment providing additional new budget authority for such fiscal year, providing new spending authority described in section 401(c)(2)(C) to become effective during such fiscal year, or reducing revenues for such fiscal year, or any conference report on any such bill or resolution, if— |