Healthcare

Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980

Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980 - Provides special and additional pay for physicians in the Armed Forces or the Public Health Service who are on active duty for a period of not less than one year. Sets forth a schedule for such special pay providing that: (1) physicians below pay grade 0-7 are to receive between $1,200 and $10,000 per year based on years of creditable service; and (2) physicians above pay grade 0-6 are to receive $1,000 per year. Entitles a physician eligible for special pay to an additional $10,000 annual payment for any 12 month period during which he or she is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training, based on years of creditable service, upon the execution of a written agreement under which the officer agrees to remain on active duty for at least one year. Authorizes additional special pay (from $2,000 to $5,000 based on years of creditable service) for those physicians eligible for special pay who are board certified (under regulations prescribed by this Act). Allows a qualified medical officer an incentive special pay not to exceed $8,000 for any 12 month period during which the officer is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training. Limits the amount paid in special pay in any fiscal year to an amount equal to six percent of the total amount paid in such year for special pay. States that such a physician must agree in writing to remain on active duty for a period of not less than one year beginning on the date the officer accepts the award of such special pay. Permits the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the military department concerned, to terminate at any time any officer's entitlement to special pay. Includes, in the computation of creditable service: (1) all periods which the officer spent in medical internship or residency training during which the officer was not on active duty; and (2) all periods of active service in the Medical Corps of the Army or Navy, as medical officer of the Air Force, or as a Public Health Service medical officer. Entitles a medical officer of the Public Health Service who is on active duty for a period of at least one year to special pay at specified rates. Provides for special pay for dentists, optometrists, and veterinarians. Prohibits the amount of special pay to which an officer is entitled to be included in computing the amount of any increase in pay, retirement pay, severance pay, or readjustment pay.

Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980

Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980 - Provides special and additional pay for physicians in the Armed Forces or the Public Health Service who are on active duty for a period of not less than one year. Sets forth a schedule for such special pay providing that: (1) physicians below pay grade 0-7 are to receive between $1,200 and $10,000 per year based on years of creditable service; and (2) physicians above pay grade 0-6 are to receive $1,000 per year. Entitles a physician eligible for special pay to an additional $10,000 annual payment for any 12 month period during which he or she is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training, based on years of creditable service, upon the execution of a written agreement under which the officer agrees to remain on active duty for at least one year. Authorizes additional special pay (from $2,000 to $5,000 based on years of creditable service) for those physicians eligible for special pay who are board certified under regulations prescribed by this Act. Allows a qualified medical officer an incentive special pay not to exceed $8,000 for any 12 month period during which the officer is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training. Limits the amount paid in special pay in any fiscal year to an amount equal to six percent of the total amount paid in such year for special pay. States that such a physician must agree in writing to remain on active duty for a period of not less than one year beginning on the date the officer accepts the award of such special pay. Permits the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the military department concerned, to terminate at any time any officer's entitlement to special pay. Includes, in the computation of creditable service: (1) all periods which the officer spent in medical internship or residency training during which the officer was not on active duty; and (2) all periods of active service in the Medical Corps of the Army or Navy, as medical officer of the Air Force, or as a Public Health Service medical officer. Entitles a medical officer of the Public Health Service who is on active duty for a period of at least one year to special pay at specified rates. Provides for special pay for dentists, optometrists, and veterinarians. Prohibits the amount of special pay to which an officer is entitled to be included in computing the amount of any increase in pay, retirement pay, severance pay, or readjustment pay. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct a review every two years of the special pay for health professionals. Requires a report to Congress on the results of such review.

Infant Formula Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980

Infant Formula Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make the failure to comply with the infant formula standards, testing, notification, and reporting requirements a prohibited act. Makes the failure to comply with the required standards of identity and quality cause to deem such formula adulterated. Makes the failure to comply with the labeling and packaging requirements cause to deem such formula misbranded. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to promulgate regulations establishing standards of identity and quality, including the required nutrients at minimum and maximum levels, for infant formula. Permits the Secretary to exempt from such regulations any infant formula intended for use by an infant having unusual medical or dietary problems. Requires each processor of infant formula to submit to the Secretary within a specified period of time the reports or test results showing compliance with the prescribed standards. Requires such processor to submit reports and test results within a specified period upon each reformulation of such formula. Requires processors to either notify the Secretary or institute a recall and then notify the Secretary upon acquiring information indicating that any of its already distributed infant formula may be misbranded or adulterated. Prohibits the use in a proceeding against a processor of any information required by the Secretary to be contained in a notification. Sets forth the recordkeeping requirements for processors of infant formula, including manufacturing and distribution information. Permits the detention of formula by an inspector who has reason to believe such formula is adulterated or misbranded. Sets forth procedures for the confirmation or revocation of such detention. Permits the movement of such detained formula upon release by the Secretary or at the end of a prescribed detention period. Requires that inspectors enforcing the requirements of this Act have access to specified records at all reasonable times. Requires each processor of infant formula to prepare information labeling for users to accompany the product. Sets forth the labeling requirements, including a summary of benefits and risks, directions for use, and storage information. Requires that such information be prominently and conspicuously placed on the labeling. Requires such processors to prepare information labeling for practitioners for the subsequent distribution of such formula. Prohibits the exportation of any infant formula which does not comply with specified requirements of this Act.

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Public Health Service Act to reduce dependence on alien graduates of foreign medical schools in United States hospitals, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding alien graduates of foreign medical schools to: (1) require medical schools to submit to the Commissioner on Immigration and Naturalization and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) an assessment of staffing requirements in the hospital departments in which the alien will be trained, and a staff utilization plan; (2) limit such alien's stay to the lesser of seven years or the time normally required to complete a designated course of medical study (presently two years with a one year extension); (3) permit such alien to change his designated course of medical study, upon approval of the Director of the International Communication Agency (presently must continue course of education under which admitted into the United States); (4) make such duration of stay and course change provisions applicable to those aliens entering the United States on or after January 10, 1978; and (5) extend the waiver authority regarding such aliens from December 31, 1980, to December 31, 1985. Amends the Public Health Service Act to consider as health manpower shortage areas hospitals with a residency training program in which more than 25 percent of the positions in such program are filled by alien graduates of foreign medical schools. Provides; (1) for priority assignments of National Health Service Corps personnel at such hospitals; and (2) that whenever possible such assignments shall reduce the number of alien residents at such hospitals. Establishes financial incentives for such replacement. Permits such residency to be counted toward satisfying the period of obligated Corps service. Directs the Secretary, in order to reduce hospital dependence on alien graduates of foreign medical schools, to: (1) identify the States, and the hospitals in such States, in which such aliens fill more than 25 percent of the places in residency training programs; and (2) develop a plan to reduce such dependence.

A joint resolution designating May 1980 as "National Arthritis Month".

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980

Designates May 1980, as "National Arthritis Month."

An act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to strengthen the authority under that Act to assure the safety and nutrition of infant formulas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980

Infant Formula Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to set forth requirements for infant formulas. States that formulas which do not conform to such requirements shall be deemed to be adulterated. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to revise such requirements and establish quality control procedures. Requires each manufacturer of an infant formula to notify the Secretary whether the formula as processed meets such requirements and of any changes in such formula or its processing. Requires a processor who has information that any infant formula leaving his or her control may be adulterated or misbranded to promptly notify the Secretary. Sets forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements respecting the distribution of such formula as may be necessary to effect and monitor recalls. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the scope and extent of such recalls. Exempts infant formulas represented and labelled for use by infants having unusual medical or dietary problems from the specified nutrient requirements of such Act. Permits the Secretary to establish terms and conditions for the exemption of other infant formulas from such requirements. Grants an inspector enforcing the provisions of this Act access to specified records of the manufacturer at all times. Makes the failure to submit required reports or to provide required notice prohibited acts under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to make uniform the capitation grant requirements for schools of optometry.

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980

Amends the Public Health Service Act to conform Federal grant requirements for nonprofit private schools of optometry to such requirements for other schools of optometry.

Prepaid Prescription Program Negotiation Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1980

Prepaid Prescription Program Negotiation Act - Permits associations of professional pharmacists to negotiate collectively with third-party insurers (including Federal and State governments) relative to their reimbursement for dispensing prepaid prescriptions.

Health Research Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1980

Health Research Act of 1980 - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Enumerates the duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the authority to obtain the services of not more than 200 scientific or professional experts or consultants. Requires the Director to delegate certain functions to the Assistant Director of NIH. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Director of NIH; and (2) prepare an annual report on its activities. Requires the Director of NIH to submit to the President, Congress, and the Secretary an annual report, including a five-year plan for the activities and program policies of the Director and the unrevised annual reports of the Advisory Council and other advisory boards of NIH. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Provides that the Director of each institute (except the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) shall appoint an assistant director to coordinate and promote the prevention, education, and health information programs of the institute. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each national research institute. Sets forth general provisions applicable to the councils, including that each council shall: (1) consist of 18 voting members appointed by the Secretary for four-year terms; and (2) review research projects and programs submitted under its jurisdiction, collect information in its field, advise the Director with respect to grant expenditures, and convene workshops and conferences. Applies special provisions to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Requires each Director to prepare an annual report including a five-year plan for the institute's activities and policies. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the 11 institutes through fiscal year 1983. Sets forth specific provisions relating to each of the national research institutes. States the general purpose of each institute. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Cancer to coordinate aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to cancer to assure their technical soundness and to provide for necessary exchange of information. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the following bodies and programs through fiscal year 1983: (1) the National Arthritis Advisory Board, the National Diabetes Advisory Board, and the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; (2) arthritis demonstration projects and data system; (3) multipurpose arthritis centers; and (4) diabetes research and training centers. Revises certain provisions relating to national research service awards. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such awards through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 1983, on the effect of such program on the number of physicians who enter the various medical specialties. Carries forward certain general provisions relating to the Institutes. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants for preventive health service programs for tuberculosis.

An act to amend chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, to revise the special pay provisions for medical officers in the uniformed services and to extend the special pay provisions for other health professionals in the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1980

Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980 - Provides special and additional pay for physicians in the Armed Forces or the Public Health Service who are on active duty for a period of not less than one year. Sets forth a schedule for such special pay providing that: (1) physicians below pay grade 0-7 are to receive between $1,200 and $10,000 per year based on years of creditable service; and (2) physicians above pay grade 0-6 are to received $1,000 per year. Entitles a physician eligible for special pay to an additional $10,000 annual payment for any 12 month period during which he or she is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training, based on years of creditable service, upon the execution of a written agreement under which the officer agrees to remain on active duty for at least one year. Authorizes additional special pay (from $2,000 to $5,000 based on years of creditable service) for those physicians eligible for special pay who are board certified (under regulations prescribed by this Act). Allows a qualified medical officer an incentive special pay not to exceed $8,000 for any 12 month period during which the officer is not undergoing medical internship or initial residency training. Limits the amount paid in special pay in any fiscal year to an amount equal to six percent of the total amount paid in such year for special pay. States that such a physician must agree in writing to remain on active duty for a period of not less than one year beginning on the date the officer accepts the award of such special pay. Permits the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the military department concerned, to terminate at any time any officer's entitlement to special pay. Includes, in the computation of creditable service: (1) all periods which the officer spent in medical internship or residency training during which the officer was not on active duty; and (2) all periods of active service in the Medical Corps of the Army or Navy, as medical officer of the Air Force, or as a Public Health Service medical officer. Entitles a medical officer of the Public Health Service who is on active duty for a period of at least one year to special pay at specified rates. Provides for special pay for dentists, optometrists, and veterinarians. Prohibits the amount of special pay to which an officer is entitled to be included in computing the amount of any increase in pay, retirement pay, severance pay, or readjustment pay. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct a review every two years of the special pay for health professionals. Requires a report to Congress on the result of such review.

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the program of assistance for health professions schools in financial distress.

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1980

Amends the Public Health Service Act to limit financial distress grants to any school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, or public health in serious financial need (thus excluding currently eligible schools of veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, Health, Education, and Welfare) to give special consideration to grant applications from such schools having significant enrollments of students from ethnic or racial minorities or from low-income families. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to meet, in addition to costs already provided for under such Act, costs of: (1) maintaining the quality of educational programs; and (2) strengthening academic resources and capabilities. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring changes in the educational component of the program of a recipient school. Limits the requirement of proper expenditure assurances to grant recipients (currently, all grant applicants must submit such assurances). Authorizes the Secretary to obligate grant funds in advance of appropriation. Requires proportionate reductions in obligated funds should appropriations fail to equal the projected amount. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1981 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. Eliminates the $5,000,000 ceiling on obligated or expended funds for start-up assistance grants for schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and public health.

Health Amendments of 1979

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980

Health Amendments of 1979 - Title I: Appropriation Authorizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for specified cancer, cardiovascular, lung, blood, and diabetes activities. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Diabetes Advisory Board through fiscal year 1981. Extends the expiration date of such Board to September 30, 1981. Authorizes appropriations for arthritis demonstration projects and data system for fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Extends the authorization of appropriations for multipurpose arthritis centers through fiscal year 1983. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the National Arthritis Advisory Board through fiscal year 1981. Extends the expiration date of such Board to September 30, 1981. Amends the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for rape prevention and control through fiscal year 1983. Title II: Revisions to Various Health Authorities - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the formula for the calculation of National Health Service Corps cost sharing. Raises the number of members composing the National Diabetes Advisory Board from 23 to 24. Adds the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development or his or her designee as an ex officio member of such Board. Amends the Community Mental Health Centers Act to eliminate specified rape prevention control reports and assistance. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to repeal the exemption from regulation as cosmetics of coal-tar hair dyes. Amends the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1946, to provide for advances to a specified service and supply fund.

A joint resolution designating the week beginning February 1, 1981, as "National Scleroderma Week".

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980

Designates the week beginning February 1, 1981, as "National Scleroderma Week."

A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of September 21 through 27, 1980, as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week".

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980

Designates the week of September 21 through 27, 1980, as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."

Medicaid Community Care Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980

Medicaid Community Care Act of 1980 - Authorizes a State with a plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to have Federal payments for home health care services, nursing services, home health aid services, medical equipment for use in the home, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology services, endiology services, adult day health services, respite care, short-term full-term nursing care, homemaker services, and nutrition counseling made at a higher rate the the rate for other care and services provided under the State plan. Specifies that the Federal medical assistance percentage for such services and the comprehensive assessments provided for in this Act shall be the lesser of: (1) the Federal medical assistance percentage determined under title XIX plus 25 percent; or (2) 90 percent of the cost of such services and assessments. Requires an application to be accompanied by a community care plan which: (1) provides for a comprehensive assessment of each individual eligible or applying for Medicaid who is likely to need long-term skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility services; (2) makes available, under title XIX, the care and services for which the higher Federal payment may be made to individuals determined pursuant to a comprehensive assessment to be in need of long-term facility services and for whom such assistance is a feasible alternative to long-term facility services; and (3) coordinates the services provided under this Act with similar services provided under the Older Americans Act of 1965, and under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress with respect to the program established under this Act. Permits a State, for the purposes of title XIX, to treat a noninstitutionalized individual the same as an individual who is in a long-term care facility if the noninstitutionalized individual meets the income and resources standards for long-term facility residents and has been determined, pursuant to an assessment under this Act, to need long-term facility services.

80/344/EEC: Council Decision of 18 March 1980 adopting a second research programme in the field of medical and public health research, consisting of four multiannual concerted projects

European Union · EUR-Lex · 18 March 1980

A bill to give the Food and Drug Administration greater discretion in the control of food additives.

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) from establishing a regulation for the use of a food additive which is found to induce cancer when ingested in reasonable quantities by man or by animal.

Health Professions Education Amendments of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980

Health Professions Education Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal: (1) the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, Health, Education, and Welfare) to make capitation grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry pharmacy, podiatry, or nursing; (2) the Secretary's authority to make grants and loan guarantees for construction projects at such schools; (3) the Secretary's authority to make grants for start-up assistance to such schools; (4) the Secretary's authority to make training grants for United States students returning from foreign medical schools; (5) the requirement of annual or periodic reports to Congress on the National Health Service Corps Program, the N.H.S. Corps Scholarship Program, and on the administration and impact of nurse training grants on nurse manpower in the United States; and (6) the Secretary's authority to collect health professions data from other Federal, State, and local agencies. Extends through fiscal year 1983 the authorization for: (1) financial distress grants to such schools; (2) grants for primary care support programs; (3) grants for nurse practitioner and physician assistant training programs; (4) grants for dental team practice programs; (5) the National Health Service Corps and the National Health Service Corps Scholarship program; (6) grants for area health education centers; (7) the scholarship and education assistance programs for the disadvantaged; (8) grants for special projects; and (9) loan insurance under the health education assistance and nursing student loan programs. Requires schools applying for a financial distress grant or contract to submit a plan addressing the financial and management problems leading to the need for such grant or contract, which the Secretary determines to have a reasonable likelihood of success. Allows the Secretary to make grants for general internal medicine and pediatrics programs including interns, residents, and practicing physicians. Requires schools or entities receiving a grant or contract for a nurse practitioner or physician assistant program to have appropriate mechanisms for placing graduates in positions for which they have been trained. Requires recipients of traineeship funds to commit themselves to service in a health manpower shortage area. Prescribes administrative penalties for breach of such commitments. Revises provisions for the release from service obligation of National Health Service Corps Scholarship recipients: (1) to eliminate the requirement of a sufficient financial base to sustain a private practice in a health manpower shortage area; and (2) to require at least two years of service in the Corps to make a Scholarship recipient eligible for a special grant to enter such private practice. Authorizes the President, in time of war or emergency, to declare Scholarship recipients military personnel during their period of obligated service. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with States for development of plans for reducing geographical maldistribution of health professionals and for assignment of Corps personnel consistent with such plans. Requires any applicant for a special project grant to demonstrate that such project will be integrated into the core curriculum of the applicant's training program. Abolishes the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. Raises from $7,500 to $10,000 the maximum annual total of Federally insured loans to a single individual student in a pharmacy school, and the aggregate insured unpaid principal of such loans per individual from $37,500 to $50,000. Repeals, with respect to the health education assistance and nursing student loan programs the: (1) prohibition on receipt of insured loans from other Federal, State, or local sources; and (2) 12 percent maximum annual interest rate on loans.

Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980

Health Professions Educational Assistance and Nurse Training Amendments of 1980 - Title I: National Health Service Corps Programs - Amends title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to include in the National Health Service Corps as an individual subject to the personnel system of the Corps and entitled to receive the same income as a civilian employee of the Corps, an individual who is not an employee of the United States and who as a recipient of a National Health Service Corps Scholarship, has been designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve in a health manpower shortage area to satisfy such individual's service obligation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving an application to assign such an individual to an entity in a health manpower shortage area if the entity does not have sufficient financial resources to provide the individual with such an income. Permits the Secretary to make a grant to the entity to assure that the individual will receive such an income if, in approving the application, the Secretary determines that the entity does not have the resources to provide such an income. Directs the Secretary to conduct programs to demonstrate the improvements that can be made in the assignment of members of the Corps to health manpower shortage areas and in the delivery of health care by Corps members in such areas through coordination with State and local governments and other public and nonprofit private entities with expertise in the planning, development, and operation of centers for the delivery of primary health care. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury called the National Health Service Corps Fund to carry out the National Health Service Corps Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with public and private nonprofit entities to conduct programs designed to prepare an individual with a service obligation under the Scholarship Program to effectively provide health services in the health manpower shortage area to which the individual is assigned. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the National Health Service Corps Program. Directs the Secretary, under title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Act, in the case of an individual with a service obligation, to determine if the individual shall provide such service as a member of the Corps: (1) who is a commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Service or who is a civilian employee of the United States; or (2) who is not such an officer or employee, and to notify the individual of such determination. Requires an individual released from the service obligation pursuant to a written agreement under which the individual agrees to engage in full-time private clinical practice to agree to accept assignments under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and to provide services to an individual entitled to medical assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act. Permits the Secretary to require an individual with such an agreement in effect who fails, for any reason, to begin or complete such service, to perform the service obligation as a member of the Corps. Requires an individual with such an agreement in effect who does not meet the service obligation to repay, with interest at the maximum legal rate, the scholarship. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the Scholarship Program. Title II: Health Professions Program under Title VII - Repeals the requirement that a school for training physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, professional public health personnel, or osteopaths, must increase its enrollment by a specified amount if it is awarded a grant, under title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Act, for the construction of additional teaching facilities. Permits the Secretary to make a loan guarantee for remodeling, renovating, or altering the teaching facility of a nonprofit private entity for educating health personnel until September 30, 1983. Extends for three fiscal years, the Federal program of insuring loans to graduate students in health professions schools. Repeals the provision which permits the Secretary to insure a student loan only if made to a student who does not receive funds from a loan insured under a Federal, State, or nonprofit program provided under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Prohibits a loan from being insured by the Secretary unless the written agreement offers, in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary, a schedule for repayment of principal and interest under which payment of a portion of the principal and interest otherwise repayable at the beginning of the repayment period is deferred until a later time in the period. Repeals the prohibition against having more than 50 percent of the students in an eligible health professions institution from having their loans insured under the Federal loan insurance program. Authorizes appropriations for the student loan program through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for scholarships for health professional students of exceptional financial need who are in their first year of study. Revises the method of determining institutional grants (formerly capitation grants) to a health professional school for the support of educational programs. States that the annual grant shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount appropriated for the fiscal year as the total number of full-time students enrolled in the school bears to the total number of full-time students enrolled in all schools of the same category. Sets forth provisions relating to the determination of enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983 for schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Prohibits making such a grant unless the applicant school provides assurances that it will at least match the amount of the grant with funds from non-Federal sources. Reduces the percentage of students required to be enrolled in medical residency training programs in primary care in order for a medical school to be eligible for such a grant. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) project grants for the establishment of departments of family medicine; (2) area health education center programs; (3) programs for physician assistants, dental auxiliaries, and dental team practice; (4) training, traineeships, and fellowships in general internal medicine and general pediatrics; (5) family medicine and general dental practice programs; (6) educational assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds so that such individuals may undertake education to enter a health profession; and (7) startup, financial distress, interdisciplinary training, and curriculum development (but only for schools of public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, or podiatry). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy, nonprofit hospitals, or other nonprofit entities to: (1) plan, develop, and operate a program for training physicians who plan to teach in general internal medicine and general pediatrics training programs; and (2) provide assistance to physicians who participate in any such program. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the most effective and efficient means of providing financial assistance to graduate medical education programs in primary medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to nonprofit schools of public health. Sets forth a formula for determining the size of the grants. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983. Requires a school to receive a grant: (1) to obtain from non-Federal sources an amount at least equal to the amount expended by the applicant for such purpose in the previous year; and (2) to maintain a certain level of enrollment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if compliance by such school will prevent it from maintaining its accreditation. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) public health traineeships; and (2) special projects for accredited schools of public health and graduate programs in health administration. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts with nonprofit entities for the establishment, operation, and administration of centers to provide intensive, short-term, advanced training, to individuals with demonstrated expertise in health policy and management, in: (1) health systems management; (2) health policy, planning, and regulation; (3) environmental policy and management; (4) financial management and strategy in health care; (5) the management of collaboration between health care entities; (6) the management of small health care entities in inner cities and rural areas; and (7) other matters which will increase the capabilities of such individuals and broaden their perspectives in carrying out their functions. States that the amount of any grant or contract shall be determined by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants and contracts, Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) grants for graduate programs in health administration; and (2) traineeships for students in accredited graduate schools of social work, but excluding accredited schools of public health, which offer a program in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy for the costs of projects to: (1) establish and improve academic administrative units in preventive or community medicine or dentistry; (2) improve predoctoral and postdoctoral instruction in preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry; (3) plan, develop, and operate joint programs between academic administrative units in preventive or community medicine or dentistry and such units in other clinical specialties which integrate the teaching of clinical preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry within clinical programs for other medical or dental disciplines; and (4) plan, develop and operate special programs to train teachers and researchers in preventive, community, or occupational medicine or dentistry. States that the Secretary shall determine the amount of any such grant. Requires a school to be eligible for such a grant to establish an academic administrative unit in preventive or community medicine or dentistry or an academic or administrative unit which has the primary responsibility, within the school, for teaching the principles of preventive or community medicine or dentistry. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine and schools of public health to meet the costs of projects to: (1) plan and develop new residency training programs and to develop and expand accredited residency training programs in preventive medicine; and (2) provide financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in such programs. States that the Secretary shall determine the amount of any such grant. Requires a school to be eligible for such a grant to demonstrate that it has or will have available full-time faculty members with training and experience in the fields of preventive medicine and support from other faculty members trained in public health and other relevant specialties and disciplines. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations, relating to allied health personnel, through fiscal year 1983 for: (1) project grants and contracts; (2) traineeships for advanced training of allied health personnel; and (3) educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training. Title III: Nurse Training - Amends title VIII (Nurse Training) of the Act to limit grants to nursing schools for the construction of new facilities and for the replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities in health manpower shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for such grants. Revises the formula for the computation of institutional support grants (formerly, capitation grants) for collegiate schools of nursing, associate schools of nursing and diploma schools of nursing so as to reduce the amount of such grants per student. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1983. Revises the requirements a nursing school must meet in order to receive such a grant so that a school must meet one of the following: (1) for a school of nursing, the first year enrollment of full-time students must exceed the number of first year students enrolled in the school year beginning during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, by the greater of five percent or five students; (2) in the case of a collegiate school of nursing, the school will carry out a program to train nurse practitioners; (3) the school will carry out a program to identify, recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds such that at least 20 percent of each year's entering class (or ten students, whichever is higher) is comprised of such individuals; (4) in the case of a collegiate school of nursing, that at least 20 percent of each year's entering class of full-time students (or ten students, whichever is greater) is made up of individuals who have a degree from an associate degree school of nursing or a diploma or equivalent indicia from a diploma school of nursing; (5) in the case of an associate school of nursing or a diploma school of nursing, at least 20 percent of each year's entering full-time students (or ten students, whichever is greater) shall be made up of individuals who are licensed practical or vocational nurses; or (6) the number of part-time students enrolled in the school, in its program leading to the degree or diploma or equivalent indicia, will be at least 20 percent of all students enrolled in the school in such program. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make special project grants and contracts to nonprofit nursing schools and other nonprofit entities for the following purposes: (1) to assist in mergers or other cooperative arrangements among hospitals and academic institutions leading to the establishment of nurse training programs; (2) to plan, develop, or establish new nurse training programs, or to improve curricula of nursing schools; (3) to assist in meeting the costs of developing short-term in- service training programs for nurses aides and orderlies for nursing homes; and (4) to provide training and education to upgrade the skills of nursing assistants, and other paraprofessional nursing personnel (retains the authority for programs to provide training and education to upgrade the skills of licensed vocational or practical nurses). Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for the remaining special projects. Stipulates that at least 20 percent of the funds appropriated shall be used to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and at least 20 percent shall be used to help to increase the supply or improve the distribution, by geographic area or by specialty group, of adequately trained nursing personnel to meet the Nation's health needs. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for advanced nurse training programs. Specifies that an individual awarded a nurse practitioner's traineeship under the Act must make a commitment to practice in a health manpower shortage area for a period equal to one month for each month the recipient receives the traineeship. Sets forth conditions of repayment in those instances where an individual awarded a traineeship either fails to complete the service obligation, or is academically dismissed or voluntarily terminates academic training. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the obligation if compliance is impossible or would involve extreme hardship and would be inequitable. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for nurse practitioner traineeships. Repeals, under the traineeship grant program for advanced training of professional nurses, the authority of the Secretary to make grants for training professional nurses to serve as nurse practitioners. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to train professional nurses to serve as nurse midwives. Authorizes appropriations for the advanced traineeship program through fiscal year 1983. Stipulates that, except under certain conditions, at least 50 percent of such appropriated funds shall be utilized to train professional nurses to teach in the various fields of nurse training. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants to cover the cost of traineeships for training nurse anesthetists. Requires that student nursing loans may only be made to a student who is in exceptionally needy circumstances or is from a low-income or disadvantaged family. Increases the interest on such loans from three to six percent. Authorizes appropriations for nursing school student loan funds through fiscal year 1983. Repeals the authority of the Secretary to make scholarship grants to nonprofit nursing schools. Title IV: Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee - Establishes, under title VII of the Act, the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to: (1) the need for and supply of physicians in the various medical specialties and with respect to the geographic distribution of physicians; and (2) various matters related to graduate medical education. Directs the Advisory Committee to recommend to the Secretary goals for: (1) the distribution of physicians by medical specialties and subspecialties; and (2) the number of graduate medical education positions that should be available in each of the medical specialties and subspecialties. Directs the Advisory Committee to annually report to the Secretary. Title V: Medicare and Medicaid Amendments Relating to Primary Care Residency Programs - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide, at the election of a hospital, that physicians' services furnished to a hospital outpatient by a licensed physician who is a resident in an accredited residency program in the hospital in family medicine, primary internal medicine, or primary pediatrics shall be treated for the purposes of the Medicare program as medical and other health services and not as physician services (which are excluded from coverage except where furnished by a hospital resident). States that the reasonable costs of such a hospital shall not include, for the purposes of determining reasonable costs, costs which are allocable to furnishing such services. Provides coverage under part B, at the election of the facility, for primary care residency training facility services. Provides that such services shall be reimbursed at 80 percent of reasonable cost. Defines the term "primary care residency training facility services" to mean such physicians' services and such services and supplies as are covered as "medical and other health services" under Medicare if furnished to an individual as an outpatient of a primary care residency training facility as an incident to a physician's professional service. Defines the term "primary care residency training facility" as a facility which, among other things, is primarily engaged: (1) in furnishing physicians' services to outpatients; and (2) in operating an approved residency training program in family medicine. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Act to provide Medicaid coverage for 100 percent of the reasonable cost of primary care residency training facility services. Title VI: Alien Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools - Amends provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act concerning the admissibility of alien medical school graduates: (1) to state that such an alien shall be considered to have passed parts I and II of the National Board of Medical Examiners Examination if the alien was fully and permanently licensed to practice medicine in a State on January 9, 1977, and was practicing medicine in a State on that date; and (2) to provide that the limit of an alien's participation in graduate medical education in the United States is limited to the lesser of seven years or the time typically required to complete such education, except that the alien may, under certain circumstances, change his or her program of education.

A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for inclusion of services rendered by a certified nurse-midwife under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980

Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include within the coverage of those titles services rendered by a nurse-midwife. Defines the term "nurse-midwife" to mean a registered nurse who has successfully completed a prescribed course of study or who has been certified by a recognized organization, and who performs services in the area of the management of the care of mothers and babies throughout the maternity cycle.

Veterans Administration Medical Quality Assurance Records Confidentiality Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980

Veterans' Administration Medical Quality Assurance Records Confidentiality Act - Provides for the confidentiality of all records and documents which are part of any Veterans' Administration medical quality assurance program. Stipulates that disclosure of such material may be made only under specified circumstances (unlawful disclosure to be punishable by fine and/or imprisonment), including: (1) congressional oversight functions; (2) Government or private licensing and accreditation functions; (3) statutory functions; and (4) public health or safety, or emergency, functions. Defines "medical quality assurance programs" for purposes of this Act.

Radiation Control Act of 1979

United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980

Radiation Control Act of 1979 - Gives the Environmental Protection Agency primary responsibility on behalf of the Federal government for: (1) compiling and assessing all available information on radiation from all sources, and disseminating the results to the public; (2) conducting and administering Federal or federally-supported radiation effects and assessment programs; (3) developing, issuing, and modifying regulations dealing with radiation exposure of the public and of workers; (4) monitoring, maintaining records of, and establishing allowable totals of radiation exposure; and (5) establishing an identifiable group to compile and analyze epidemiological information on the effects of radiation. Directs the Administrator of the Agency to: (1) establish the most likely statistical relation between a given exposure dose of each form of ionizing radiation and the consequent harmful effects therefrom; (2) exposure encountered for the public and for workers from each of specified sources; and (3) obtain the statistically expected effect upon the public and upon workers from each of individual types of sources within specified categories. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress specified reports and annual updates, summaries of which shall be made available for public information. Transfers to the Agency all functions and activities for which the Agency is given primary responsibility under this Act which are currently being exercised or conducted by other Federal agencies and officers, along with related powers, duties, personnel, and resources, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Directs the Administrator to keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently informed of all activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

A joint resolution designating May 1980 as "Better Hearing and Speech Month".

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1980

Designates May, 1980, as "Better Hearing and Speech Month."

Health Professions Education and Distribution Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Health Professions Training and Distribution Act of 1980 - Reaffirms the Federal Government's partnership with the nation's health professions schools and students so that, with Federal assistance: (1) all Americans can be assured equal opportunities to enter a health career; (2) all Americans can be assured equal access to qualified health professions personnel; and (3) the health professions schools, as a national resource, can assist in accomplishing these objectives. States that amendments made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 1980. Title I: Health Personnel Training and Distribution - Redesignates title VII of the Public Health Service Act as "Health Personnel Training and Distribution". Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), under Title VII, including: (1) health personnel training; (2) health personnel geographic and specialty distribution; (3) providing equal career opportunities; (4) assuring delivery of health care; and (5) maximizing the cost effectiveness of health education, training, and services. Renames the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel. Expands such Council from 21 to 23 members, and expands from 12 to 13 the number of members from the health professions schools. Includes within such membership: a representative from an allied health training center; and permits the inclusion of interns or residents. Revises provisions requiring the Secretary to compile health personnel. Revises related reporting requirements, including: (1) a general status report every two years (presently annual reports); and (2) status reports every two years on students in health training, teachers and teaching facilities, and minorities. Sets forth guidelines regarding the confidentiality of individually identifiable personal data, including: (1) informing any individual asked to supply such data whether or not he or she is legally required to do so, and of any consequences of providing or not providing such information; (2) making such data available upon request to the individual concerned; (3) assuring that nonrelated use of such data is not made, unless consent has been given by the individual concerned; (4) informing an individual, upon request, of the use being made of such data, and the identity of the individuals and entities receiving such data. Prohibits any entity which maintains a record of personal data from complying with a request from the Secretary for such data without first getting the consent of the individual concerned. Prohibits the Secretary from disclosing personal data (other than to the individual concerned) unless: (1) such individual requires the information for purposes of this Act; or (2) the information is requested by a compulsory legal process. Requires the Secretary to notify the individual concerned of any such disclosure demand. Exempts the Secretary from specified coordination of Federal reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance in carrying out programs under Title VII. Prohibits grants for the construction of teaching facilities in hospitals or outpatient facilities. Expands the definition of "ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities" for purposes of such grants presently limited to those facilities training physicians and dentists). Authorizes specified sums for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for: (1) construction of teaching facilities for medical and public health personnel; and (2) ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Transfers grant application approval authority from the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of Education. Eliminates the prevention of curtailment of a school's enrollment as a factor which must be taken into account in considering an application for a grant supporting a project for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities. States that for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, priority shall be given for construction projects for health profession schools expanding from two-year programs to degree granting programs, and for new schools anticipating predominantly minority enrollment. Removes the limitation on the amount of a grant which the Secretary may make for the construction of ambulatory, primary care teaching facilities. Subjects such grants to the limitations established for grants made for other projects. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the request of an applicant and after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel, to reduce or eliminate any enrollment requirements imposed on grantees prior to October 1, 1980. Prohibits the promulgation of regulations which would provide for enrollment increases for eligibility purposes regarding construction loan guarantees or interest subsidies. Repeals the specific authority of the Secretary to provide technical assistance for such construction. Extends the program of construction loan guarantees and interest subsidies until September 30, 1983 (presently September 30, 1980). Authorizes increased interest subsidies (six or seven percent rather than present three percent) for projects initially guaranteed or subsidized after October 1, 1980. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into new loan guarantee and interest subsidy agreements for construction projects for a cumulative total of principal equal to the amount authorized for grants under the construction program. Extends the Federal program of insured new loans to students in health professions schools to fiscal year 1983 (presently to fiscal year 1980). Extends the deadline for granting such insurance on any such loans or installments from September 30, 1982, to September 30, 1986. Increases yearly limitatiors and aggregate unpaid principal on individual Federally insured student loans from: (1) $10,000 to $15,000 and from $50,000 to $60,000, for medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, or public health; and (2) $7,500 to $10,000 and from $37,500 to $50,000, for pharmacy. Increases from $15,000 to $20,000 the additional limitations on such loans, and from $60,000 to $80,000 for the aggregate unpaid principal, for medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Extends eligibility for such loans to: (1) graduate students in health administration; (2) advanced nursing students; and (3) physician assistant or dental auxiliary training programs. Includes living expenses among the permissible uses of such loans. Removes the prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the guaranteed student loan program under the Higher Education Act, and replaces it with a prohibition on concurrent borrowing under this Act and the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, the Indian Health Service Program, or the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Extends from three to four years specified periods exempted from principal installment payments (but not from interest accrual and payment). Adds a graduated repayment action and a variable interest option as parts of the written loan agreement. Replaces the maximum 12 percent interest on the unpaid principal balance of the loan with a rate not to exceed the average of the bond equivalent rates of the 91-day Treasury bills plus two percent. Eliminates the requirement that interest payments on insured loans must be made during deferment periods. Eliminates the Secretary's authority to enter into a written contract with a borrower to discharge a portion of his or her loan for service in a health manpower shortage area. Authorizes the Secretary to discharge a borrower's loan liability if such borrower: (1) failed to complete the first year of studies leading to a first professional degree; (2) is in exceptionally needy circumstances; (3) is from a low-income or disadvantaged family; and (4) has not resumed nor is expected to resume such studies within two years. Extends the health professions student loan program through fiscal year 1981. Limits such extension to senior students already receiving such loans. Revises the period for the capital distribution of such loan funds from September 30, 1983 through December 31, 1983, to September 30, 1981 through December 31, 1981. States that such funds shall be deposited in the Service Contingent Loan Fund established by this Act. Authorizes a loan program for students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, graduate health administration, and physician assistants or expanded function dental auxiliaries. Makes the terms of repayment of such a loan contingent on service in a "national priority position" as such position is described in this Act. Sets forth program provisions with regard to: (1) the required agreement with the institution; (2) student eligibility; (3) loan amounts (depending upon medical specialty); (4) loan agreement terms (installments, acceleration, loan interest); (5) deferral of principal and interest payments, with interest accrual, during periods of graduate training, armed forces service, VISTA or Peace Corps service, service in medically undeserved areas, or National Health Service Corps or Indian Health Service; and (6) national priority service as designated by, and at the option of, the Secretary. Establishes in the Treasury a Service Contingent Loan Fund in the Treasury to finance such program. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund ($10,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1983, and thereafter as requested). Directs the Secretary to establish a Loan Discharge Fund to be used in connection with the discharge of loans to borrowers serving in optional national priority positions. Revises public health traineeship and other graduate grant provisions to: (1) require trainees to be United States citizens or permanent residents; (2) require traineeships to be distributed on the basis of the needs of the eligible students; (3) extend such grants through fiscal year 1983; and (4) remove the requirement that 65 percent of such traineeships go to students with post baccalaureate degrees or with three years of health services experience. Extends the National Health Service Corps scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Includes receipt of a loan under the service contingency loan program established under this Act as a priority in making National Health Service Corps awards. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make 80 percent of the medicine and osteopathy awards in each State proportionate to the need for physicians in health manpower shortage areas in the State; and (2) approve scholarship applications by August 1 of each year, and to promptly notify the educational institutions of such scholarship approvals. Reorganizes the administration of the scholarship program, the National Health Service Corps programs, and the educational support programs under a single administrative unit. Makes the existing mandatory release of a National Health Service Corps scholarship recipient to fulfill his or her period of obligated service through an independent practice arrangement discretionary with the Secretary. Includes Public Health Service scholarship recipients (prior to October 1, 1977) within such option. Replaces the financial base requirement with one requiring a person serving under the independent practice option to agree to accept assignment under the medicare program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to individuals serving under the independent practice option. Sets forth pay schedules (including malpractice insurance coverage) for such service. Makes such individuals eligible for special grants. Extends the National Health Service Corps Scholarship program through fiscal year 1983. Revises the medical specialties distribution of scholarships to require that at least 80 percent of such scholarships be given to medical and osteopathic students. Extends the program of financial need scholarships for first-year students through fiscal year 1983. Bases the distribution of scholarship funds on the proportionate enrollment of first-year students with exceptional financial need. Establishes a maximum award of the lesser of tuition and fees plus $2,500, or $5,000. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Eliminates the Lister Hill (family practice) scholarship program. Adds a new program of up to 80 percent loan repayment by the Secretary if the student serves for up to four years in a health manpower shortage area. Eliminates the health professions capitation grant program. Establishes a program of national priority incentive grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and public health for programs and projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) grant formulas and enrollment and tuition incentives; and (3) enrollment determinations. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for fiscal years 1981 through 1983. Expands the scope of the existing family medicine grant program. Extends such program through fiscal year 1983. Stipulates that at least ten percent of funds available in each fiscal year shall be used to develop programs to train physicians who will teach family medicine. Extends the area health education center program through fiscal year 1983, and directs that priority be given to programs that will serve an entire State. Extends the program for the training of physician assistants through fiscal year 1983, and adds a traineeship authority. Sets forth participation requirements for such traineeships. Extends the program for training in primary care internal medicine and pediatrics through fiscal year 1983, and adds authority for faculty development to such program. Replaces the existing family medicine and general dentistry grant program with a dental education grant program for: (1) training expanded function dental auxiliaries; (2) training dental students in the organization and management of dental teams; and (3) operating dental residency programs and providing financial assistance to such residents. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Expands and extends through fiscal year 1983 the program of aiding minority and disadvantaged persons in entering the health professions. Stipulates that at least 75 percent of such funds in each fiscal year shall be for grants or contracts to institutions of higher education. Authorizes funds for start-up costs for those schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry receiving support prior to October 1, 1980. Extends the financial distress grant program through fiscal year 1985. Makes nursing schools eligible for such grants, but restricts such eligibility to not more than three consecutive years. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for up to five years with financially-troubled health professions schools in medically undeserved areas. Sets forth conditions for such grant, including disclosure requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for projects related to the enrollment of students who will serve in medically undeserved areas, or to provide training in such areas. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make a single grant to any private two-year medical school to assist such school in converting to an accredited degree granting institution; (2) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training including residency training, in preventive or community medicine or dentistry, including occupational medicine; (3) make grants through fiscal year 1983 for special curricular offerings and projects related to optometry, podiatry, pharmarcy, and veterinary medicine; (4) make grants through fiscal year 1983 to support training in nutrition, geriatrics, rehabilitation, and the containment of health care costs; (5) make grants for projects to increase the participation and advancement of women in health careers; and (6) make grants to conduct research and demonstration projects. Revises and extends through fiscal year 1983 training programs in public health, health administration, and allied health. Adds cost-sharing and cost-containment requirements for health administration programs. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Advisory Council on Health Personnel prior to awarding specified grants in such areas. Repeals existing provisions concerning: (1) statistical and annual reporting requirements of the Secretary; (2) advanced traineeships in allied health; and (3) educational assistance to disadvantaged individuals in allied health training. Title II: Nurse Education Amendments - Nurse Education Amendments of 1980 - Extends the grant programs for nursing facilities construction, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies through fiscal year 1983. Lessens existing restrictions on new project interest subsidy payments. Extends authorizations beyond fiscal year 1980 for the Treasury loan guarantee and interest subsidy fund. Replaces the capitation grant program with a program of national priority incentive grants to support educational and other related projects in the national interest. Sets forth: (1) enrollment provisions; (2) matching non-Federal funding requirements; (3) application requirements; and (4) grant computation formulas, including increases to any type of nursing school for (a) increased enrollment; (b) graduates working in medically undeserved areas; (c) increased minority enrollment; or (d) providing registered nurses with the opportunity to complete a nursing degree. Provides for a decrease in grant funds if enrollment decreases. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Repeals existing financial distress assistance provisions (nursing schools made eligible under title I of this Act). Amends the nursing special project grant program, including: (1) eliminating funds for mergers; (2) adding the requirement that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects related to the geographic or specialty distribution of nurses and requiring that at least 20 percent of appropriated funds be used for projects to increase nursing opportunities for minority and disadvantaged persons. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants through fiscal year 1983 for clinical and practical nursing education projects. Extends the advanced nurse training programs through fiscal year 1983. Requires the Secretary to establish by March 31, 1981, criteria for designating areas, facilities, or organizations as nurse shortage areas. Sets forth factors to be used in making such determinations. Requires the Secretary to provide written notice of the designation of a nurse shortage area to: (1) the chief administrative officer of the organization; (2) the Governor of each State in which the area, organization, or facility is located; (3) the concerned (a) health systems agency; (b) State health planning and development agency; or (c) public or private entity. Authorizes the Secretary to make such designation available to: (1) the public; (2) concerned or interested entities. Extends nurse traineeship programs in advanced training and anesthesiology through fiscal year 1983. Limits the nursing student loan program in fiscal year 1981 to senior students completing their education. Distributes the capital in the loan fund (established by each school) to the Service Contingent Loan Fund (established by this Act). Repeals the provisions authorizing money to be transferred between the nursing student loan program and the nursing scholarship program. Extends the nursing scholarship program through fiscal year 1986. Stipulates that grants shall be ratably reduced dependent upon the amount of appropriations. Title III: National Health Service Corps Program - Requires the Secretary to provide for training of National Health Service Corps Scholarship recipients to prepare them for service in medically undeserved areas. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for such training. Requires the Secretary to first seek an obligated scholarship recipient who received his or her training in the undeserved area's State before assigning a Corps member to a health manpower shortage area (other than certain medical facilities). Extends the National Health Service Corps program through fiscal year 1983.

Health Care Management and Health Care Personnel Distribution Improvement Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Health Care Management and Health Care Personnel Distribution Improvement Act of 1980 - Title I: Health Care Management - Declares the purpose of this title to be to encourage effective management of health care services in determining the cost, quality, and availability of such services, and to target resources to improve health care management. Amends title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of health care management fellowships (replaces the existing graduate traineeship program). Sets forth application guidelines. States that such fellowships shall not exceed three years. Requires such fellowship recipients to be provided with at least two years academic training followed by one year of specified supervised training. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Provides, with regard to eligibility for graduate program grants in health administration, that: (1) the minimum amount of required non-Federal funds shall be $150,000 (presently $100,000); (2) the comparison dates for first-year, full-time enrollments shall be fiscal years 1982 (presently 1978), and 1980 (presently 1976), respectively; (3) minority and other students from designated rural or urban areas shall comprise at least seven, ten, and 12 percent of the entering classes for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983, respectively; and (4) certain courses and course concentrations shall be available. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to provide grants for curricula development to educational institutions with graduate health administration programs. States that such curricula may include: (1) finance; (2) marketing; (3) economics; (4) epidemiology and health planning; (5) health policy; (6) quality assurance; (7) information systems; (8) related health disciplines; and (9) ambulatory care services. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants for faculty development to such educational institutions. Prohibits such a grant unless at least three students shall complete such program in each year for which a grant application is made. Requires a grant recipient to serve at least two years as a faculty member in a graduate health administration program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981,1982, and 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with educational institutions and appropriate nonprofit private entities to conduct training in health care management for health care professionals. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs the Secretary to: (1) contract with an appropriate public or private entity (or entities) for a health care management evaluation and report; and (2) submit such report, along with any accompanying comments, to the Senate Committees on Finance, and Labor and Human Resources, and to the House Committees on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and Ways and Means, within 24 months of enactment of this Act. States that such report shall contain: (1) an analysis and comparison of health care management with management in other major industries; (2) an identification and evaluation of applicable management skills; (3) an assessment of educational needs; (4) an evaluation of Federal policies having an impact on the management of health care facilities or institutions; (5) a comparison of health care management career incentives with incentives in other major industries; and (6) an evaluation of management interaction between the health care industry and other industries. Title II: Special Projects and Experiments - Declares the purpose of this title to be the enhancement of physician residency training in order to improve the geographic and specialty distribution of physicians. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to appropriate institutions with accredited physician residency training programs in internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry, to assist educational programs (as set forth in this Act) that encourage such physicians to locate their practices in medically underserved areas. Prohibits such grants from being used for the training of residents currently supported under federally funded training programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to develop and operate physician training programs in: (1) physical medicine, rehabilitation, and other nonprimary care specialties in undersupply; and (2) preventive medicine. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the educational costs of establishing new residency programs in specified medical fields. Directs that priority be given for programs: (1) in ambulatory care in medically underserved areas; and (2) that include an interdisciplinary team approach to ambulatory care. Prohibits such grants from being used solely for training physicians receiving support under federally funded programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the educational costs of innovative residency training programs that: (1) prepare residents for teaching medical students and other hospital staff by providing programs suited to the clinical setting, and by providing programs that train faculty members as specialists in medical education and curriculum development; and (2) develop programs relating to the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, and principles of health services organization, cost containment, and epidemiology. Prohibits such grants from being solely for training physicians receiving support under federally funded programs in general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family medicine. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Directs the Secretary to undertake research and demonstration projects, in coordination with specified experimental and demonstration projects, with respect to changes in Federal health care reimbursement policies. States that such projects shall: (1) encourage individuals to enter careers in undersupplied physician and health professional specialties; (2) encourage health personnel to practice in medically underserved areas; (3) determine the effect of different reimbursement rates for similar physician services; (4) determine financial incentives necessary to improve services to medically underserved areas; (5) determine the adequacy of reimbursement for nonprocedure oriented physician services; (6) assess the effect and cost of direct reimbursement of primary care nonphysician providers on the availability of such service in medically underserved areas; (7) determine necessary changes in reimbursement policies to encourage ambulatory care training; and (8) assess the cost and impact of altering reimbursement policies to include reimbursement for disease prevention and health promotion activities in the primary care setting. Requires the Secretary to submit annual interim reports, and a final report within three years of enactment of this Act, regarding such projects to the Senate Committees on Finance, and Labor and Human Resources, and to the House Committees on Ways and Means, and Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Title III: Alien Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding alien graduates of foreign medical schools, to: (1) require medical schools to submit to the Commissioner on Immigration and Naturalization and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) an assessment of staffing requirements in the hospital departments in which the alien will be trained, and a staff utilization plan; (2) limit such alien's stay to the lesser of seven years or the time normally required to complete a designated course of medical study (presently two years with one year extension); (3) permit such alien to change his or her designated course of medical study, upon approval of the Director of the International Communication Agency (presently must continue course of education under which admitted into the United States); (4) make such duration of stay and course change provisions applicable to those aliens entering the United States on or after January 10, 1978; and (5) extend the waiver authority regarding such aliens from December 31, 1980, to December 31, 1985. Amends the Public Health Service Act to consider as health manpower shortage areas hospitals with a residency training program in which more than 25 percent of the positions in such program are filled by alien graduates of foreign medical schools. Provides: (1) for priority assignments of National Health Service Corps personnel at such hospitals; and (2) that whenever possible such assignments shall reduce the number of alien residents at such hospitals. Establishes financial incentives for such replacement. Permits such residency to be counted toward satisfying the period of obligated Corps service. Directs the Secretary, in order to reduce hospital dependence on alien graduates of foreign medical schools, to: (1) identify the States, and the hospitals in such States, in which such aliens fill more than 25 percent of the places in residency training programs; and (2) develop a plan to reduce such dependency.

A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of September 21-27, 1980 as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week".

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Designates the week of September 21 through 27, 1980, as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove all limits on the number of home health visits for which payment may be made under both part A and part B (eliminating the requirement of prior hospitalization in the case of home health care under part A), to include additional types of services as home health care, to provide coverage for preventive care under part B, to provide coverage for services furnished in outpatient rehabilitation facilities and elderly day care centers, to improve the administration of the medicare program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the 100 visit limitation presently applicable to home health care services under such title. Eliminates prior hospitalization as a condition of eligibility for home health care services under part A (Hospital Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled) of such title. Eliminates the requirement that a physician review the home health care plan and that the patient be under the care of a physician. Requires that such functions be done by the appropriate health professional under regulation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Includes as home health services periodic chore services, hospital outreach services, and nutritional counseling. Requires each home health agency to have in effect a utilization review plan as adapted to meet the noninstitutional nature of home health services. Includes outpatient rehabilitation services and health and supportive services furnished in elderly day care centers among the services provided under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled) of title XVIII. Amends part B (Professional Standards Review) of title XI of the Act to: (1) direct a Professional Standards Review Organization to perform the same duties and functions for skilled nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, and other long-term care providers as it performs for hospitals; and (2) include nurses, social workers, guidance counselors, and other appropriate health care professionals.

A bill to extend for three fiscal years the authorization of appropriations for the administration of the Controlled Substances Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to authorize appropriations for the administration of such Act for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Amends the Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978 to reinstitute criminal penalties for violations relating to the possession, use, distribution, sale, or reporting requirements for piperidine.

A bill making additional appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the National Institutes of Health to carry out research with respect to lupus erythematosus.

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980

Appropriates additional funds for fiscal year 1981 for the National Institutes of Health to carry out lupus erythematosus research.

A bill to amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide for the duty-free entry of certain disposable glass hypodermic syringes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980

Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to permit the duty-free entry of disposable, glass, non-filled, and non-vacuum hypodermic syringes and parts.

Indian Health Care Amendments of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980

Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for: (1) the health professions recruitment program for Indians; (2) health professions preparatory scholarship program for Indians; (3) health professions scholarship program; (4) Indian health service extern programs; (5) continuing education allowances; (6) health services, including patient and dental care, field health, mental health services, and the treatment of alcoholism among Indians; (7) the construction and renovation of hospitals, health centers and stations, and staff housing; (8) the construction of safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities; and (9) health services for urban Indians.

Infant Formula Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980

Infant Formula Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to set forth requirements for infant formulas. States that formulas which do not conform to such requirements shall be deemed to be adulterated. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to make revisions of and exemptions to such requirements. Requires each manufacturer of an infant formula to: (1) semiannually submit to the Secretary reports or test results which show that the formula meets such requirements; (2) promptly notify the Secretary upon determination that a processed formula which has left an establishment subject to the manufacturer's control may be adulterated or misbranded; and (3) report to the Secretary at 14 day intervals during a recall. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prescribe the scope and extent of recalls of adulterated infant formulas to effectively remove them from commercial distribution; (2) review, at 15 day intervals, a manufacturer's actions during a recall; and (3) report annually to Congress on changes, or recommendations for changes, in the list of requirements under this Act. Permits an inspector enforcing the provisions of this Act access to specified test records of the manufacturer at all times. Makes the failure to submit required reports and test results a prohibited act under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that enrollment increases made by schools of medicine to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration shall not be considered in determining if the schools have met the first-year enrollment requirements for capitation grant assistance under title VII of such Act.

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980

Amends title VII of the Public Health Service Act (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) to stipulate that enrollment increases made by schools of medicine to receive assistance from the Veterans' Administration shall not be considered in determining if such schools have met the first-year enrollment requirements for capitation grant educational assistance.

A bill to amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to restrict the export of goods which have been found to be hazardous to the public health.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1980

Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the export of goods, the sales of which are prohibited or restricted in the United States pursuant to specified public health and safety laws, unless specified conditions are met. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to issue export licenses permitting the export of such goods if: (1) all statutory requirements are met; (2) the Secretary and the head of the agency regulating the sale of such good in the United States concur that (a) the country has requested such export, (b) the country has been fully informed of any U.S. restrictions and possible hazards, and (c) the potential benefits outweigh the possible hazards; and (3) the sale in the importing country would be subject to restrictions comparable to those imposed in the United States. Requires such exported goods to include all information required by U.S. law. Prohibits the export of such goods if such information is likely to be ineffective. Prohibits the export of any good to be used in manufacturing prohibited goods.

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to strengthen the authority under that Act to assure the safety and nutrition of infant formulas.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1980

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that infant formulas contain specified nutrients at specified levels. States that an infant formula not containing such levels of nutrients be deemed to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to establish nutrient levels for fluoride, chromium, selenium, and molybdenum in such formulas. Permits the Secretary to waive or modify such required nutrient levels in formulas to be used by infants having unusual medical or dietary problems. Directs each processor of an infant formula to submit to the Secretary, at specified times, reports or test results satisfactorily demonstrating that such formula meets the requirements as set forth. Requires a processor who has information that any infant formula leaving his control may be adulterated or misbranded to promptly notify the Secretary or to institute a recall and then notify the Secretary. Prohibits the use of any information contained in such notification in a proceeding against such processor for a violation of such Act. Directs each processor of infant formula to establish and implement a food coding system to effect and monitor recalls of formula and to notify the Secretary of such system. Permits the Secretary to exempt specified processors from such requirements. Sets forth the requirements of a coding system. Permits the Secretary to provide technical assistance upon request to revise such a system to bring it into compliance. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to effectuate the requirements of such provisions. Directs each processor of an infant formula to make, retain, and make available to the Secretary such records as may be necessary to effect and monitor recalls and facilitate inspections. Permits the Secretary to promulgate regulations setting forth requirements with regard to such records. Makes a failure to submit specified reports, test results, or notices, or to revise a food coding system a prohibited act under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. States that infant formulas not packaged in accordance with the requirements set forth in this Act shall be deemed to be misbranded.

A joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim September 8 of each year as "National Cancer Day".

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1980

Authorizes and requests the President to designate September 8 of each year as "National Cancer Day."

A joint resolution to designate the third week of September as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week".

United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1980

Designates the third week of September of each year as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."

A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for minimum reimbursement levels for physicians' services under the medicaid program.

United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1980

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a State Medicaid plan to provide for payment for physicians' services at a rate of not less than the greater of: (1) 60 percent of the reasonable charges for such services as determined under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII of the Act; or (2) the rate of payment for such services under the State plan as in effect during the calendar quarter ending December 31, 1979.

A bill to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include emergency medical vehicle workers among the public safety officers whose survivors are eligible for certain benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980

Extends death benefit coverage under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to emergency medical vehicle workers.

A bill to provide Federal financial assistance to States for programs to identify women who received diethylstilbestrol (DES) while pregnant and the children of such women, to establish a voluntary registry of such women and children, to provide screening of such women and children for cancer related to such drug, and to provide information respecting the health hazards of such drug.

United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1980

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a program of grants to applicant States for programs to: (1) identify women who received diethylstilbestrol (DES) while pregnant and the children of such women; (2) establish a voluntary registry of such women and children to help inform them of medical data, available assistance, and followup care; (3) provide periodic screening for cancer related to such drug; and (4) provide information to health professions personnel. Limits the amount of any such grant to 75 percent of the cost of the program.

A bill to limit the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to regulation of vitamin and mineral products for over-the-counter human use.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1980

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) from promulgating a proposed rule applicable to vitamin and mineral products for over-the-counter human use published on March 16, 1979, or from taking any other action which would have the same effect as such proposed rule.

Voluntary Medicines Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1980

Voluntary Medicines Act of 1980 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude from the definition of food additive the food itself, a combination of foods, or foods for special dietary use, or the ingredients thereof, unless being used as preservatives or flavors for a food. Excludes from the definition of "drug" foods for special dietary use, or for preservation or treatment of dietary deficiency conditions.

Health Research Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980

Health Research Act of 1980 - Amends title IV of the Public Health Service Act (National Research Institutes) to establish as an agency of the Public Health Service the National Institutes of Health (abolished as a statutory entity by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1966), consisting of the following 11 categorical institutes: the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institute of Dental Research; the National Eye Institute; the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Enumerates the duties of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the authority to obtain the services of not more than 200 scientific or professional experts or consultants. Requires the Director to delegate certain functions to the Assistant Director of NIH. Directs the Secretary to appoint a National Institutes of Health Advisory Board to: (1) advise and make recommendations to the Director of NIH; and (2) prepare an annual report on its activities. Requires the Director of NIH to submit to the President, Congress, and the Secretary an annual report, including a five-year plan for the activities and program policies of the Director and the unrevised annual reports of the Advisory Council and other advisory boards of NIH. Provides that the Director of the National Cancer Institute shall be appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the general duties of the Secretary (acting through the Director of each national research institute) with respect to the aspect of human health for which the institutes were established. Authorizes activities and programs to be supported through grants and contracts approved by each Director. Provides that the Director of each institute (except the National Institute of General Medical Sciences) shall appoint an assistant director to coordinate and promote the prevention, education, and health information programs of the institute. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for each national research institute. Sets forth general provisions applicable to the councils, including that each council shall: (1) consist of 18 voting members appointed by the Secretary for four-year terms; and (2) review research projects and programs submitted under its jurisdiction, collect information in its field, advise the Director with respect to grant expenditures, and convene workshops and conferences. Applies special provisions to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Requires each Director to prepare an annual report including a five-year plan for the institute's activities and policies. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the 11 institutes through fiscal year 1983. Sets forth specific provisions relating to each of the national research institutes. States the general purpose of each institute. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Cancer to coordinate aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to cancer to assure their technical soundness and to provide for necessary exchange of information. Extends the authorization of appropriations in specific amounts for each of the following bodies and programs through fiscal year 1983: (1) the National Arthritis Advisory Board, the National Diabetes Advisory Board, and the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board; (2) arthritis demonstration projects and data system; (3) multipurpose arthritis centers; and (4) diabetes research and training centers. Revises certain provisions relating to national research service awards. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such awards through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress by January 1, 1982, on the effect of such program on the number of physicians who enter the various medical specialties. Carries forward certain general provisions relating to the Institutes. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1983 for grants for preventive health service programs for tuberculosis.

Bericht der Bundesregierung über den Stand der Unfallverhütung und das Unfallgeschehen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Unfallverhütungsbericht) (G-SIG: 09000420)

Germany · German Bundestag · 8 February 1980

Entwicklung in den Bereichen Arbeitsunfälle, Wegeunfälle und Berufskrankheiten; Unfallkosten, insbesondere Aufwendungen der Träger der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung; Maßnahmen zur Unfallverhütung, Arbeitsschutz, Technische Sicherheit, Aktionsprogramm Humanisierung des Arbeitslebens

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for the payment of out-of-hospital prescription drugs, eye glasses, hearing aids and dentures.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage under the Medicare program for: (1) eyeglasses and examinations for the purpose of prescribing eyeglasses; (2) out-of-hospital prescription drugs; (3) hearing aids and examination for hearing aids; and (4) dentures.

Reyes Syndrome Act of 1979

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1980

Reye's Syndrome Act of 1979 - Amends title IX of the Public Health Service Act (Genetic Diseases, Hemophilia Programs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, through the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders, and Stroke, the Reye's Syndrome Coordinating Committee to make grants to and enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for a three-year project to establish two comprehensive Reye's syndrome diagnostic and treatment centers. Includes among the duties of such centers: (1) the conduct of basic and clinical research; (2) the development of new and improved treatments; (3) the provision of physician training programs; and (4) informational services, with respect to the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of Reye's syndrome. Directs the Secretary to submit a report to Congress within six months of the end of the project with respect to its accomplishments. Authorizes the Committee to provide financial assistance to public agencies, nonprofit private entities, and entities and individuals not associated with the centers, to conduct research on Reye's syndrome.

Arthritis Research and Training Amendments of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1980

Arthritis Research and Training Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the National Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases Advisory Council separate subcommittees on arthritis, diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic diseases, digestive diseases, and kidney diseases. Directs these subcommittees to: (1) review applications made to the Director of the Institute for research projects relating to such diseases and make recommendations to the Advisory Council; and (2) review and evaluate programs directed at such diseases. Redesignates the Arthritis Coordinating Committee as the Arthritis Interagency Coordinating Committee. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give priority to applications for arthritis demonstration project grants which include programs emphasizing methods of disseminating knowledge about other arthritis projects to professionals who treat patients with arthritis. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to support projects for the investigation into the epidemiology, etiology, and prevention of all forms of arthritis. Authorizes appropriations for such projects through fiscal year 1983. Extends the authorization of appropriations for other arthritis demonstration projects and the Arthritis Data System through fiscal year 1983 at current levels. Directs the Secretary to provide up to two training stipends in any fiscal year through each of the current multipurpose arthritis centers. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such centers through fiscal year 1983. Makes certain revisions in the membership of the National Arthritis Advisory Board. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Board through fiscal year 1983 at current levels.

A bill entitled "Small and Rural Laboratory Protection Act".

United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980

Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to halt immediately implementation of those regulations relating to clinical laboratory personnel published October 12, 1979, and published as corrected October 23, 1979.

Bericht der "Kommission zur Auswertung der Erfahrungen mit dem reformierten § 218 des Strafgesetzbuches" (G-SIG: 09000419)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 January 1980

Einstellung der Bevölkerung zur Reform des § 218 StGB, Erfahrungen Schwangerer mit der Handhabung der gesetzlichen Vorschriften durch Beratungsstellen, Ärzte, Krankenhäuser und Behörden, Erfahrungen der Ärzte bei Anwendung der Vorschriften, Methoden und Risiken des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs, Problematik der Familienplanung, flankierende Maßnahmen bei Schwangerschaftskonflikten

A bill to amend title V of the Social Security Act to require States to provide women access to their obstetric medical records and current information on obstetrical procedures, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the dissemination of information on the effects and risks of drugs and devices on the health of pregnant and parturient women and of prospective and developing children, and to provide for a study on the delayed long-term effect on child development of obstetrical drugs and procedures administered to or used by pregnant and parturient women.

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980

Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health) of the Social Security Act to require a State plan under such title to insure that a woman with respect to her pregnancy or parturition: (1) has the opportunity, upon her request, to inspect, copy, and have explained any medical records relating to her condition or treatment; and (2) is informed, prior the performance of a procedure or the administration of a drug or device, of the side effects, risks, contraindications, and effectiveness of the procedure or the administration of the drug or device, of not performing the procedure or administering the drug or device, of alternative methods of treatment, and after being so informed the health care practitioner receives her consent to a treatment. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish guidelines with respect to the explanation of the side effects, risks, contraindications, and effectiveness of drugs and devices intended for the use of women during pregnancy or parturition. Deems misbranded any drug or device offered for sale to a woman for use during pregnancy or parturition which does not meet such guidelines. Directs the Secretary to arrange for a study to determine the long-term side effects, risks, contraindications, and effectiveness of the use of obstetrical drugs, devices, and procedures with respect to maternal health and child development and to report to Congress concerning such study.