A bill to authorize the Commissioner of Education to carry out a program to assist persons from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake training for the legal profession.
PL 93-343 (H.R.15296), enacted 07/10/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-343-JULY 10, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
Limitations. 
Additional 
sums. 
(3) Design, construction, acquisition, modification, operation, 
and maintenance of saline water conversion test beds and test 
facilities, not more than $2,626,000 ; 
(4) Design, construction, acquisition, modification, operation, 
and maintenance of saline water conversion modules, not more 
than $900,000; and 
(5) 
Administration 
and 
coordination, 
not 
more 
than 
$2,000,000. 
(b) Expenditures and obligations under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), 
and (4) of subsection (a) of this section may be increased by not 
more than 10 per centum and expenditures and obligations under para-
graph (5) of subsection (a) of this section may be increased by not 
more than 2 per centum, if any such increase under any paragraph 
is accompanied by an equal decrease in expenditures and obligations 
under one or more of the other paragraphs. 
SEC. 2. In addition to the sums authorized to be appropriated by 
section 1 of this Act there are also authorized to be appropriated such 
additional sums or supplemental amounts as may be necessary for 
increases in salary, pay, retirement, or other employee benefits 
authorized by law or other nondiscretionary costs. 
Approved July 10, 1974. 
July 10,1974 
[H. R.15296] 
Public Law 93-343 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Ck)mmissioner of Education to carry out a program to assist 
persons from disadvantaged baclsgrounds to undertake training for the legal 
profession. 
Legal education 
fellowship pro-
gram, authoriza-
tion. 
20 u s e 1134n. 
87 Stat. 746. 
Grants to pri-
vate nonprofit 
organizations. 
20 u s e 1134n, 
11340,1134p. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds appro-
priated for part D of title I X of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
by the Department of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1974 (Public Law 93-192), shall remain available for obli-
gation through September 15, 1974, for the purpose of supporting a 
program to assist persons from disadvantaged backgrounds to prepare 
and be educated for the legal profession. 
SEC. 2. In order to carry out the program authorized by this Act, 
the Commissioner of Education is authorized to make grants to private 
nonprofit organizations representative of legal education and the legal 
profession for the purpose of (1) selecting and counseling such per-
sons; (2) paying stipends to such persons and in such amounts as the 
Commissioner may determine to be appropriate; and (3) paying for 
any administrative expenses incurred in the carrying out of activities 
authorized by this Act. 
SEC. 3. The activities authorized by this Act may be carried out with-
out regard to the requirements and limitations set forth in sections 
961, 962, and 963 of part D of title I X of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965. 
Approved July 10, 1974.