A bill to promote public health and welfare by expanding and improving the family planning services and population sciences research activities of the Federal Government.

Summary

Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Office of Population Affairs, to be directed by the Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs, appointed by the President. Enumerates the functions of the Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning, under the direct supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Provides that the Administration shall have a Director and a Deputy Director and such advisers of the Administration as the Director, with the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, may determine. Establishes, with the Administration, a National Center for Family Planning Services, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: public information, program planning and evaluation, manpower development and training, supervision of field services, and grants management. Establishes, within the Administration, a National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: reproductive physiology research, contraceptive development and evaluation, operational research, social science research, public information, manpower development and training, and grants management. Establishes a National Family Planning Service Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Center for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change. States that the Council shall be composed of the Director of the Administration, who shall serve as Chairman, and at least eighteen members appointed by the President without regard to civil service laws. Establishes a National Population Sciences Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change. States that the Council shall be composed of the Director of the Administration, who shall serve as Chairman, and at least eighteen members appointed by the President without regard to civil service laws. Enumerates the functions of the Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Provides that the Director of the Administration shall, by regulation, provide for proper scientific review of all research grants and programs over which he has authority by establishing and utilizing, to be extent possible, appropriate peer review committees established with the approval of the National Population Sciences Advisory Council and composed principally of non-Federal scientists and other experts as may be required, to provide initial and continuing evaluations and reviews of the planning, administration, and progress of research grants and programs of the Institute. States that beginning on or before January 1 at the termination of the current five-year plan, the Secretary shall make a report to the Congress setting forth a plan, to be carried out over a period of five years, for continuation and, if necessary, expansion of family planning services to all persons desiring such services, for research programs, for training of necessary manpower, and for carrying out the other purposes of this Act. Authorizes specific appropriations to carry out the purposes of and programs under this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 26 March 1974

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