An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization for assistance in the provision of graduate or specialized public health training, and for other purposes
PL 88-497 (H.R.11083), enacted 08/27/1964

78 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-497-AUG. 27, 1964 
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Public Law 88-497 
AN ACT 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization for assist-
ance in the provision of graduate or specialized public health training, and 
for other purposes. 
August 27, 1964 
[H. R. 11083] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Graduate Public Health Training Amendments of 
1964". 
SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (a) of section 306 of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act (42 U.S.C. 242d), relating to traineeships for professional 
public health personnel, is amended bv striking out "seven" and insert-
mg in lieu thereof "twelve" and by inserting immediately after 
"Congress may determine," the following: "but not to exceed $4,500,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $7,000,000 for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1966, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1967, and $10,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, 
and the succeeding fiscal year,". 
(b) Subsection (e) of such section is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "The Surgeon General shall, C(^gre 
between June 30, 1967, and December 1, 1967, call a similar confer-
ence, and shall submit to the Congress, on or before January 1, 1968, 
a report of such conference, including any recommendations by it 
relating to the limitation, extension, or modification of this section." 
SEC. 3. (a) Subsection (a) of section 309 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242g), relating to project grants to schools for 
graduate public health training, is amended by striking out "June 
30, 1965" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1964, $2,500,000 for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $4,000,000 for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1966, $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, 
$7,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and $9,000,000 for 
the fiscal year ending June 30,1969". 
(b) Effective in the case of grants from appropriations for any fiscal 
year beginning after June 30, 1964, such subsection (a) is amended by 
striking out "and to those schools of nursing or engineering which 
provide graduate or specialized training in public health for nurses 
or engineers, for the purpose of strengthening or expanding gradu-
ate public health training in such schools" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"and to other public or nonprofit private institutions providing gradu-
ate or specialized training in public health, for the purpose of 
strengthening or expanding graduate or specialized public health 
training in such institutions". 
(c) Subsection (b) of such section is amended by striking out 
"schools" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof 
"institutions". 
Approved August 27, 1964. 
Graduate Public 
Health Training 
Amendments of 
1964. 
70 Stat. 923. 
73 Stat. 239. 
Report to 
74 Stat. 819.