An Act to assist States and communities to carry out intensive vaccination programs designed to protect their populations, especially all preschool children, against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus, and against other diseases which may in
PL 87-868 (H.R.10541), enacted 10/23/1962

76 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 87-868-OCT. 23, 1962 
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SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and legis-
lative provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1963: Provided^ That 
the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be increased from 6 to 7 per centum of appropriations 
for construction projects. 
SEC. 16. The salary of the Controller for the Department of Public 
Welfare shall be at the rate of Grade GS-16 and the Commissioners 
are authorized to appoint supervisors of investigators for the Depart-
ment of Public Welfare at Grade GS-11 and investigators at Grade 
GS-9. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1963". 
Approved October 23, 1962. 
74 Stat. 17. 
74 Stat. 23. 
Short title. 
Public Law 87-868 
AN ACT 
To assist States and communities to carry out intensive vaccination programs 
designed to protect their populations, particularly all preschool children, 
against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. 
October 23, 1962 
[H. R. 10541] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bejyresentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962". 
SEC. 2. Part B of title I I I of the Public Health Service Act is 
amended by adding after section 316 the following new section: 
u, 
GRANTS FOR INTENSIVE VACCINATION PROGRAMS 
"SEC. 317. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
$14,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and $11,000,000 
each for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and June 30, 1965, to 
enable the Surgeon General to make grants to States and, with the 
approval of the State health authority, to political subdivisions or 
instrumentalities of the States under this section. 
Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this section for the fiscal years ending June 30, 
1963, and June 30, 1964, shall be availrble for making such grants 
during the fiscal year for which appropriated and the succeeding fiscal 
year. Such grants may be used to pay that portion of the cost of inten-
sive community vaccination programs against poliomyelitis, diphthe-
ria, whooping cough, and tetanus which is reasonably attributable to 
(1) purchase of vaccines needed to protect children under the age of 
five years and such additional groups of children as may be described 
in regulations of the Surgeon General upon his finding that they are 
not normally served by school vaccination programs and (2) salaries 
and related expenses of additional State and local health personnel 
needed for planning, organizational, and promotional activities in 
connection with such programs, including studies to determine the 
immunization needs of communities and the means of best meeting 
such needs, and personnel and related expenses needed to maintain 
additional epidemiologic and laboratory surveillance occasioned by 
such programs. 
"(b) For purposes of this section an 'intensive community vaccina-
tion program' means a program of limited duration which is so de-
signed and conducted as to achieve, with the cooperation of practicing 
physicians, official health agencies, voluntary organizations, and vol-
unteers, the immunization against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping 
Vaccination As-
sistance Act of 
1962. 
58 Stat. 693; 
75 Stat. 824. 
42 u s e 243-
247a. 
"Intensive com-
munity vaccination 
program." 
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[76 STAT. 
Method of pay-
ment. 
Vaccines to 
private physicians. 
Reduction of 
grant. 
42 u s e 701-
731; 29 u s e 4Sb. 
cough, and tetanus over the period of the p r o - a m of all, or practically 
all, susceptible persons in a community, particularly children who are 
under the age of five years, and which includes plans and measures 
looking toward the strengthening of ongoing community programs 
for the immunization against such diseases of infants and for mainte-
nance of immunitv in the remainder of the population. Nothing in 
this section shall be construed to require any State or any political 
subdivision or instrumentality of a State to have an intensive com-
munity vaccination program which would require any person who 
objects to immunization to be immunized or to have any child or ward 
of his immunized. 
"(c) (1) Payments under this section may be made in advance or 
by way of reimbursement, in such installments, and on such terms 
and conditions as the Surgeon General finds necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this section, and the Surgeon General may, if the applicant 
State or other political subdivision or instrumentality so requests, 
purchase and furnish vaccines in lieu of making money grants for the 
purchase thereof. 
"(2) Each applicant under this section for a money grant for the 
purchase of vaccines, or for a grant of vaccines in lieu of a money 
grant, for use in connection with an intensive community vaccination 
program shall, at the time it files its application with the Surgeon 
General, provide the Surgeon General with assurances satisfactory 
to him that it will, if it receives such a grant, furnish any physician, 
who practices in the area in which such program is to be carried out 
and makes application therefor to it, with such amounts of vaccines 
as are reasonably necessary in order to permit such physician during 
the period of such program to immunize his patients who are in the 
group for whose immunization such grant of money or vaccines is 
made. 
"(3) Each applicant for a grant under this section for use in con-
nection with an intensive community vaccination program shall, at 
the time it files its application for such grant with the Surgeon 
General, provide the Surgeon General with assurances satisfactory 
to him that it will, if it receives such grant, furnish such other services 
and materials as may be necessary to carry out such program. 
"(d) The Surgeon General, at the request of a State or other public 
agency, may reduce the grant to such agency under this section by the 
amount of the pay, allowances, traveling expenses, and any other 
costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee of the 
Public Health Service to such agency when such detail is made for 
the convenience of and at the request of such agency and for the 
purpose of carrying out a function for which a grant is made under 
this section. 
The amount by which such grant is so reduced shall be 
available for payment of such costs by the Surgeon General, but 
shall, for purposes of subsection (c), be deemed to have been paid to 
such agency. 
"(e) Nothing in this section shall limit or otherwise restrict the use 
of funds which are granted to a State or to a political subdivision of 
a State under title V of the Social Security Act, other provisions of 
this Act, or other Federal law and which are available for the purchase 
of vaccine or for organizing, promoting, conducting, or participating 
in immunization programs, from being used for such purposes in 
connection with programs assisted through grants under this section." 
Approved October 23, 1962.