17. DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION Title IV or The Health Services And Centers Amendments Of 1978 (Public Law 95-626) TITLE IV—RESOURCES FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION Sec. 401. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall undertake or support (through grants or contracts or both) five intensive and comprehensive community based programs in both rural and urban areas for the purpose of demonstrating and evaluating optimal methods for organizing and delivering comprehensive preventive health services to defined populations. (b) The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives on January 1, 1981, and on January 1 of every second year thereafter a report on the programs undertaken or supported under subsection (a) including, but not limited to, a detailed description and an evaluation of the effectiveness of each such program. (c) For the purpose of undertaking or supporting demonstrations and evaluations pursuant to subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending Spetember 30, 1982. Sec. 402. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, after consultation with appropriate public and private entities, shall establish a comprehensive program designed to deter smoking and the use of alcoholic beverages among children and adolescents. Such a program shall include— (1) the undertaking or support (through grants or contracts or both) of biomedical and behavioral research designed to increase understanding of the biological and behavioral determinants of smoking and the use of alcoholic beverages among children and adolescents, with special emphasis on children aged twelve or below; and (2) grants to States or political subdivisions of States to assist them in meeting the costs of demonstrations and evaluations of community or school-based programs designed to deter smoking and the use of alcoholic beverages among children and adolescents. (b) With respect to grants under paragraph (a)(2) the Secretary and each grant applicant and recipient must comply with the provisions of subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of section 317. (c)(1) For the purpose of making payments for the undertaking or support of research under paragraph (a)(1), there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981. (2) For the purpose of making payments under paragraph (a)(2), there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981. Sec. 403. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall conduct, or arrange for the conduct of, a study or studies of (1) the relative health risks associated with smoking cigarettes of varying levels of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide; and (2) the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes containing any substances commonly added to commercially manufactured cigarettes. (b) Within two years of the date of enactment of this part, the Secretary shall report to the Congress the results of the study or studies conducted pursuant to subsection (a) and any recommendations for legislative or administrative action. Sec. 404. (a) The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, shall submit to Congress on December 1, 1980, and on December 1 of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and disability in the United States. Such profile shall include at a minimum— (1) mortality rates for preventable diseases; (2) morbidity rates associated with preventable diseases; (3) the physical determinants of health of the population of the United States and the relationship between these determinants of health and the incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of death and disability; and (4) the behavioral determinants of health of the population of the United States including, but not limited to, smoking, nutritional and dietary habits, exercise, and alcohol consumption, and the relationship between these determinants of health and the incidence and prevalence of preventable causes of death and disability. (b) In preparing the profile required by subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, shall comply with all relevant provisions of sections 306 and 308 of the Public Health Service Act. 18. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES: FUNDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF TITLE XII Section 13 Of The Emergency Medical Services (Public Law 94-573) Expenses Of Administration Sec. 13. Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the annual appropriations Act making appropriations for the programs under title Xll of the Public Health Service Act for each fiscal year ending after September 30, 1976, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall allocate an amount of expenditures and a number of personnel positions sufficient for the identifiable administrative unit (described in section 1208 of such Act) to— (1) provide support (including salaries of unit personnel and costs of administration, data gathering and dissemination, technical assistance, monitoring, and independent evaluation) for it to carry out its functions under title All of such Act for such fiscal year; and (2) provide support for the Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services established under section 1209 of such Act for such fiscal year, and shall immediately report to the appropriate Committees of Congress a statement of the amount of expenditures and the number of personnel positions so allocated for such fiscal year. Legislative History House Report No. 94-1089 accompanying H.R. 12664 (Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce). Senate Report No. 94-889 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare). June 10, considered and passed Senate. Aug. 24, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 12664. Oct. 1, Senate agreed to House amendments with an amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment. 19. FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES AND POPULATION RESEARCH ACT OF 1970 (Public Law 91-572) SHORT TITLE Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970". DECLARATION OF PURPOSE Sec. 2. It is the purpose of this Act— (1) to assist in making comprehensive voluntary family planning services readily available to all persons desiring such services; (2) to coordinate domestic population and family planning research with the present and future needs of family planning programs; (3) to improve administrative and operational supervision of domestic family planning services and of population research programs related to such services; (4) to enable public and nonprofit private entities to plan and develop comprehensive programs of family planning services; (5) to develop and make readily available information (including educational materials) on family planning and population growth to all persons desiring such information; (6) to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of family planning service programs and of population research; (7) to assist in providing trained manpower needed to effectively carry out programs of population research and family planning services; and (8) to establish an Office of Population Affairs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as a primary locus within the Federal Government on matters pertaining to population research and family planning, through which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Secretary") shall carry out the purposes of this Act. OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS Sec. 3. (a) There is established within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of Population Affairs to be directed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs under the direct supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs shall be appointed by the Secretary. (b) The Secretary is authorized to provide the Office of Population Affairs with such full-time professional and clerical staff and with the services of such consultants as may be necessary for it to carry out its duties and functions. FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION AFFAIRS Sec. 4. The Secretary shall utilize the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs— (1) to administer all Federal laws for which the Secretary has administrative responsibility and which provide for or authorize the making of grants or contracts related to population research and family planning programs; (2) to administer and be responsible for all population and family planning research carried on directly by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare or supported by the Department through grants to, or contracts with, entities and individuals; (3) to act as a clearinghouse for information pertaining to domestic and international population research and family planning programs for use by all interested persons and public and private entities; (4) to provide a liaison with the activities carried on by other agencies and instrumentalities of the Federal Government relating to population research and family planning; (5) to provide or support training for necessary manpower for domestic programs of population research and family planning programs of service and research; and (6) to coordinate and be responsible for the evaluation of the other Department of Health, Education, and Welfare programs related to population research and family planning and to make periodic recommendations to the Secretary. Legislative History House Reports: No. 91-1472 accompanying H.R. 19318 (Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce) and No. 91-1667 (Committee of Conference). Senate Report No. 91-1004 (Committee on Labor and Public Welfare). Congressional Record, Vol. 116 (1970): July 14, considered and passed Senate. Nov. 16, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 19318. Dec. 8, House agreed to conference report. Dec. 10, Senate agreed to conference report. |