MIGRANT HEALTH ACT

(42 U.S.C. Sec. 242h)

8 242h. Health services for domestic agricultural migrants.

There are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $7,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, $9,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and the next fiscal year, $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, to enable the Secretary (1) to make grants to public and other nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations for paying part of the cost of (i) establishing and operating family health service clinics for domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including training persons (including allied health professions personnel) to provide services in the establishing and operating of such clinics, and (ii) special projects to improve and provide a continuity in health services for and to improve the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families, including necessary hospital care, and including training persons (including allied health professions personnel) to provide health services for or otherwise improve the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families, and (2) to encourage and cooperate in programs for the purpose of improving health services, for or otherwise improving the health conditions of domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. The Secretary may also use funds appropriated under this section to provide health services to persons (and their families) who perform seasonal agricultural services similar to the services performed by domestic agriculural migratory workers if the Secretary finds that the provision of health services under this sentence will contribute to the improvement of the health conditions of such migratory workers and their families. For the purposes of assessing and meeting domestic migratory agricultural workers' health needs, developing necessary resources, and involving local citizens in the development and implementation of health care programs authorized by this section, the Secretary must be satisfied, upon the basis of evidence supplied by each applicant, that persons broadly representative of all elements of the population to be served and others in the community knowledgeable about such needs have been given an opportunity to participate in the development of such programs, and will be given an opportunity to participate in the implementation of such programs. (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, $ 310, as adaea Sept. 25, 1962, Pub. L. 87-692, 76 Stat. 592, and amended Aug. 5, 1965, Pub. L. 89-109, 83, 79 Stat. 436; Oct. 15, 1968, Public L. 90–57, title II, 8 201, 82 Stat. 1006; Mar. 12, 1970, Pub. L. 91-209, 84 Stat. 52.)

AMENDMENTS 1970–Pub. L. 91–209 substituted for "Secretary" for "Surgeon General,” authorized appropriations of $20,000,000, $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1971, June 30, 1972, and June 30, 1973, respectively, made the bringing about of continuity in health services one of the objects of the Secretary's grants for special projects, inserted parenthetical reference to allied health professions personnel, authorized the Secretary to provide funds towards health services for those performing seasonal agricultural services, and provided for the representation of all elements of the migratory worker population, whose health needs are to be met, in the development of health programs and that such persons be given an opportunity to participate in the implementation of such programs.

1968—Pub. L. 90–574 added provisions authorizing appropriations of $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970.

1965—Pub. L. 89-109 substituted “not to exceed $7,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968" for "for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, such sums, not to exced $3,000,000 for any year, as may be he necessary” and inserted “including necessary hospital care, and” in cl. (1) (il).

SHORT TITLE
Section 1 of Pub. L. 89-109 provided : “That this Act (amending this section
and sections 246, 247a and 247b of this title) may be cited as the Community
Health Services Extension Amendments of 1965'."

ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF SURGEON GENERAL The Office of the Surgeon General was abolished by section 3 of 1966 Reorg. Plan No. 3 eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, and all functions thereof were transferred to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 1 of 1966 Reorg. Plan No. 3 set out as a note under section 202 of this title.

DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS No grant, award, or loan of assistance to any student under any Act amended by Pub. L. 90–574, which amended this section, to be considered a duplication of benefits for the purposes of section 1781 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits, see section 504 or Pub. L. 90-574, set out as a note under section 1781 of Title 38.

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