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PUBLIC LAW 88-164-OCT. 31, 1963
make grants to public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning to assist them in establishing and maintaining scholarships, with such stipends as may be determined by the Commissioner, for training personnel preparing to engage in employment as teachers of the deaf." (c)(1) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 6 of the Act of September 22, 1961 (Public Law 87-276, 20 U.S.C. 676) is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: ", and $1,500,000 for the fiscal year Miding June 30, 1964". (2) Subsection (b) of such section 6 is amended by striking out "1963" and inserting in lieu thereof "1964".
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RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION P R O J E C T S I N EDUCATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
S E C 302. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and each of the next two fiscal years, the sum of $2,000,000 to enable the Commissioner of Education to make grants to States, State or local educational agencies, public and nonprofit private institutions of higher learning, and other public or nonprofit private educational or research agencies and organizations for research or demonstration projects relating to education for mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired children who by reason thereof require special education (hereinafter in this section referred to as "handicapped children"). Such grants shall be made in installments, in advance or by way of reimbursement, and on such conditions as the Commissioner of Education may determine. (b) The Commissioner of Education is authorized to appoint such special or technical advisory committees as he may deem necessary to advise him on matters of general policy relating to particular fields of education of handicapped children or relating to special services necessary thereto or special problems involved therein. (c) The Commissioner of Education shall also from time to time appoint panels of experts who are competent to evaluate various types of research or demonstration projects under this section, and shall secure the advice and recommendations of such a panel before making any such grant in the field in which such experts are competent. (d) Members of any committee or panel appointed under this section who are not regular full-time employees of the United States shall, while serving on the business of such committee or panel, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, but not exceeding $75 per day, including travel time; and, while so serving away from their homes or regular place of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of suDsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for eo Stat. sos. persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (e) The Commissioner of Education is authorized to delegate any of his functions under this section, except the promulgation of regulations, to any officer or employee of the Office of Education.
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