An Act to amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act to extend and expand the authorization of grants to States for rehabilitation services, to authorize assistance in establishment and operation of a National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, and to provide assistance for migrants
PL 90-99 (H.R.12257), enacted 10/03/1967

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[81 STAT. 
(2) shall terminate at the close of March 31, 1968, if he filed 
his notice of termination after December 31, 1967, and before 
April 1, 1968. 
An individual whose coverage period terminated pursuant to para-
graph (1) at the close of December 31, 1967, may, notwithstanding 
section 1837(b) (2) of such Act, enroll in such program before April 1, 
1968, and for purposes of sections 1838(a) (2) (E) and 1837(b) (2) of 
such Act such enrollment shall be deemed an enrollment under section 
1837(e) of such Act and a second enrollment under such part. 
(b) In the case of any individual who did not enroll in the insur-
ance program established under part B of title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act in his initial enrollment period, but does so enroll before 
April 1, 1968, the enrollment period in w^hich he so enrolls shall, for 
purposes of section 1839(c) of such Act, be deemed to have closed on 
December 31,1967. 
Approved September 30, 1967. 
October 2,1967 
[H. R. 472] 
Public Law 90-98 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase certain land from Texas 
Southmost ('oUege, Brownsville. Texas. 
Southmost Col-
lege, Browns-
ville, Tex. 
U. S. land pur-
chase. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to acquire by purchase, with any funds 
available for agricultural reseiirch, one and nineteen one-hundredths 
acres and three and sixty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less, as 
improved, out of the motor transport area fourteen and six thousand 
seven hundred fifteen ten-thousandths acres in the Fort Brown Reser-
vation in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, and now leased to 
the Government of the United Statas for research purposes. 
Approved October 2, 1967. 
A 
October 3, 1967 
[H. R. 12257] 
Public Law 90-99 
AN ACT 
To amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act to extend and expand the authoriza-
tion of grants to States for rehabilitation services, to authorize assistance in 
establishment and operation of a National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and 
Adults, and to provide assistance for migrants. 
Vocational 
Rehabilitation 
Amendments of 
1967. 
79 Stat. 1282. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may be 
cited as the "Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1967". 
GRANTS TO STATES FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
SERVICES 
SEC. 2. Effective with respect to appropriations for fiscal years 
ending after June 30,1968, section 1 (b) (1) of the Vocational Rehabili-
tation Act (29 U.S.C. 31(b) (1)) is amended by striking out "and", 
and by inserting before the period at the end thereof ", for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1969, the sum of $500,000,000^ and for the fiscal 
year ending June 30,1970, the sum of $600,000,000". 
81 STAT.] 
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GRANTS TO STATES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS 
SEC. 3. Section 4 (a) (2) (B) of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (29 
U.S.C. 34(a) (2) (B)) is amended by striking out "June 30,1967" each 
79 stat. 1290. 
time it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1968" 
and by striking out "June 30,1968" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 
30, 1969". 
C E N T E R S F O R D E A F - B L I N D YOUTHS AND ADULTS 
SEC. 4. The Vocational Eehabilitation Act is further amended by 
redesignating section 17 as section 19 and by inserting after section 16 ygl^^^^\284'' 
the following new section: 
29 use 31 note.; 
" N A T I O N A L C E N T E R FOR DEAF-BLIND YOUTHS AND ADULTS 
"SEC. 17. (a) In order— 
"(1) to demonstrate methods of (A) providing the specialized, 
intensive services, as well as other services, needed to rehabilitate 
handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind, and (B) 
training the professional and allied personnel needed adequately 
to staff facilities specially designed to provide such services and 
training such personnel who have been or will be working with 
the deaf-blind; 
" (2) to conduct research in the problems of, and ways of meet- 
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ing the problems of rehabilitating, the deaf-blind; and 
"(3) to aid in the conduct of related activities which will ex-
pand or improve the services for or help improve public under-
standing of the problems of the deaf-blind; 
the Secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with any public 
or nonprofit private agency or organization for payment by the United 
States of all or part of the costs of the establishment and operation, 
including construction and equipment, of a center for vocational reha-
bilitation of handicapped individuals who are both deaf and blind 
which shall be known as the National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths 
and Adults. 
" (b) Any agency or organization desiring to enter into such an agree-
ment shall submit a proposal therefor at such time, in such manner, 
' * ^ *. 
and containing such information as may be prescribed by the Secre-
tary. In considering such proposals, the Secretary shall give preference 
to those proposals which (1) give promise of maximum effectiveness 
in the organization and operation of the National Center for Deaf-
Blind Youths and Adults, and (2) give promise of offering the most 
substantial skill, experience, and capability in providing a broad pro-
gram of service, research, training, and related activities in the field of 
rehabilitation of the deaf-blind. 
"(c) The agreement shall— 
" (1) provide that Federal funds paid to the agency or organiza-
tion for the Center will be used only for the purposes for which 
paid and in accordance with the applicable provisions of this sec-
tion and the agreement made pursuant thereto; 
"(2) provide that the agency or organization making the agree- p^*^*""* *° 
ment will make an annual report to the Secretary, which the °"8ress. 
Secretary in turn shall transmit to the Congress with such com-
ments and recommendations as he may deem appropriate; 
"(3) provide that any laborer or mechanic employed by any 
contractor or subcontractor in the performance of work on any 
construction aided by Federal funds under this section will be paid 
wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construc-
tion in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in 
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[81 STAT. 
accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
78*8131^*238°^^' 
^76&,—276a-5); with the Secretary of Labor having, with respect 
to the labor standards specified in this paragraph, the authority 
and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 
64 Stat. 1267. 
^950 (15 F.R, 3176) and section 2 of the Act of June 13,1934, as 
63 Stat. 108. 
amended (40 U.S.C. 276c); and 
"(4) include such other conditions as the Secretary deems neces-
sary to carry out the purposes of this section. 
" (d) If within twenty years after the completion of any construc-
tion (except minor remodeling or alteration) for which funds have 
been paid pursuant to an agreement under this section the facility 
constructed ceases to be used for the purposes for which it was con-
structed or the agreement is terminated, the United Statas, unless 
the Secretary determines that there is good cause for releasing the 
recipient of the funds from its obligation, shall be entitled to recover 
from the applicant or other owner of the facility an amount which 
bears the same ratio to the then value of the facility as the amount 
of such Federal funds bore to the cost of the portion of the facility 
financed with such funds. Such value shall be determined by agree-
ment of the parties or by action brought in the United States dis-
trict court for the district in which the facility is situated. 
" (e) For purposes of this section— 
"Construction." 
«^1) ^j^g term 'construction' means construction of new build-
ings, acquisition of existing buildings, and expansion, remodeling, 
alteration, and renovation of existing buildings, and initial equip-
ment of such new, newly acquired, expanded, remodeled, altered, 
or renovated buildings; and includes the cost of architects' fees 
and acquisition of land in connection with any of the foregoing, 
but does not include the cost of off-site improvements; 
"(2) the determination of who are both deaf and blind shall 
be made in accordance with regulations of the Secretary." 
SERVICES FOR MIGRATORY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS 
SEC. 5. The Vocational Rehabilitation Act is further amended by 
inserting after section 17 (added by section 4 of this Act) the following 
new section: 
" P R O J E C T GRANTS FOR SERVICES FOR MIGRATORY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS 
"SEC. 18. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to any 
State agency designated pursuant to a State plan approved imder 
68 Stat. 656. 
sectiou 5, O
T to any local agency participating in the administration of 
29 use 35. 
gy^jjj ^ plan, for not to exceed 90 per centum of the cost of pilot or dem-
onstration projects for the provision of vocational reha^bilitation serv-
ices to handicapped individuals who, as determined in accordance with 
rules prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, are migratory agricultural 
workers, and to members of their families (whether or not handi-
capped) who are with them, including maintenance and transportation 
of such individuals and members of their families where necessary to 
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the rehabilitation of that individual. Maintenance payments under this 
section shall be consistent with any maintenance payments made to 
other handicapped individuals in the State under the Vocational 
Rehabilitation Act. Such grants shall be conditioned upon satisfactory 
assurance that in the provision of such services there will be appropri-
ate cooperation between the grantee and other public and private non-
profit agencies having special skills and experience in the provision of 
services to migratory agricultural workers or their families. This sec-
tion shall be administered in coordination with other provisions of law 
29 use 31 
note. 
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dealing specifically with migrant agricultural workers, including title 
I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, section 311 
of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and the Farm Labor Con-
tractor Registration Act of 1963." 
RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT 
SEC. 6. Section 5(a) of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 
sec. 35 (a)) is amended by striking out "and" after the semicolon at the 
end of paragraph (10), hj striking out the period at the end of para-
graph (11) and inserting m lieu thereof "; and", and by inserting after 
paragraph (11) the following new paragraph: 
"(12) effective July 1, 1969, provide that no residence require-
ment will be imposed which excludes from services under the plan 
any individual who is present in the State." 
79 Stat. 27. 
20 u s e 241a 
note. 
79 Stat. 977. 
42 u s e 2861. 
78 Stat. 920. 
7 u s e 2041 note. 
68 Stat. 656. 
MATCHING REQUIREMENT FOR T H E DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SEC. 7. Effective July 1,1968, section 11 (h) (1) (B) of the Vocational 
Rehabilitation Act is amended by inserting "the District of Columbia," 
after "the allotment percentage for". 
Approved October 3, 1967. 
68 Stat. 661. 
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Public Law 90-100 
AN ACT 
Creating a commission to be known as the Conimissicm on Obscenity and 
Pornography. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
FINDING OF FACT AND DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SECTION 1. The Congress finds that the traffic in obscenity and 
pornography is a matter of national concern. The problem, however, 
is not one which can be solved at any one level of government. The 
Federal Government has a responsibility to investigate the gravity of 
this situation and to determine whether such materials are harmful to 
the public, and particularly to minors, and whether more effective 
methods should be devised to control the transmission of such materials. 
The State and local governments have an equal responsibility in the 
exercise of their regulatory powers and any attempts to control this 
transmission should be a coordinated effort at the various governmental 
levels. It is the purpose of this Act to establish an advisory commission 
whose purpose shall be, after a thorough study which shall include a 
study of the causal relationship of such materials to antisocial behavior, 
to recommend advisable, appropriate, effective, and constitutional 
means to deal effectively with such traffic in obscenity and pornography. 
October 3,1967 
[S. 188] 
eommission on 
Obscenity and 
Pornography. 
Establishment. 
COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY 
SEC. 2. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—For the purpose of carrying out 
the provisions of this Act, there is hereby created a commission to be 
known as the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (hereinafter 
referred to as the "Commission"), whose members shall include persons 
having expert knowledge in the fields of obscenity and antisocial be-
havior, including but not limited to psychiatrists, sociologists, psy-