A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of Federal financial assistance for specialized treatment centers for the study and treatment of problems respecting human fertility and sterility and the human reproductive process.

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Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Public Health Service Act, to establish in the National Institutes of Health and in four other geographical regions, treatment centers to assist individuals seeking to bear children, and to undertake research and training in advanced diagnostic and treatment methods relating to problems respecting human fertility, sterility, and the human reproductive process. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with public or private nonprofit agencies or institutions to pay the expenses of planning and establishing basic operating support for specialized treatment centers. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1976 and each of the next four fiscal years such sums as are necessary to pay the expenses authorized by this Act. Includes counseling for individuals who are unable to have children in the family planning projects and services assisted under the Act and provides for the referral of such individuals to specialized regional treatment centers.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 26 March 1975

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