[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1638 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1638

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the provision of 
   rehabilitation services under the program of block grants for the 
              prevention and treatment of substance abuse.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 1997

  Ms. Waters (for herself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Jackson of 
Illinois, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Ms. McKinney, Mrs. Meek of Florida, 
Mr. Thompson, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Rush, Mr. Towns, Mr. Dixon, Mr. 
    Stokes, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Dellums, Mr. Rangel, Mrs. Clayton, Ms. 
 Kilpatrick, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Ford, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Owens, 
   Mr. Watt of North Carolina, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Scott, Mr. Hastings of 
 Florida, Ms. Christian-Green, Ms. Carson, Ms. Norton, Mr. Payne, Mr. 
 Clay, Mr. Jefferson, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Fattah, 
   Mr. Lewis of Georgia, and Ms. Millender-McDonald) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the provision of 
   rehabilitation services under the program of block grants for the 
              prevention and treatment of substance abuse.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO PROGRAM OF BLOCK GRANTS FOR PREVENTION AND 
              TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

    (a) Provision Regarding Increase of Appropriations by $310 
Million.--Section 1935(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300x-35(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' after ``1993,''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period the following: 
        ``1,620,107,000, for fiscal year 1998, and such sums as may be 
        necessary for each of the fiscal years 1999 through 2002''.
    (b) Allocation of Increase in Appropriations.--Section 1922 of the 
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x-22) is amended by adding at 
the end the following subsection:
    ``(d) Allocation for Rehabilitation Services.--A funding agreement 
for a grant under section 1921 is that, in expending the grant, the 
State involved will expend not less than 19.14 percent to provide 
rehabilitation services (in addition to any other amount that under 
this subpart is required to be allocated for such services).''.
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