90 STAT. 2292
PUBLIC LAW 94-484—OCT. 12, 1976 "(c)
"Full time students."
42 USC 295f.
ENROLLMENT DETERMINATIONS.—
" (1) For purposes of this section, regulations of the Secretary shall include provisions relating to the determination of the number of students enrolled in a school or in a particular year-class in a school on the basis of estimates, on the basis of the number of students who in an earlier year were enrolled in a school or in a particular year-class, or on such other basis as he deems appropriate for making such determination, and shall include methods of making such determination when a school or a year-class was not in existence in an earlier year at a school. "(2) For purposes of this section, the term 'full-time students' (whether such term is used by itself or in connection with a particular year-class) means students pursuing a full-time course of study leading to a degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of dentistry or an equivalent degree, doctor of osteopathy, bachelor or master of science in pharmacy or an equivalent degree, doctor of optometry or an equivalent degree, doctor of veterinary medicine or an equivalent degree, or doctor of podiatry or an equivalent degree or to a graduate degree in public health or equivalent degree. In the case of a training program of a school designed to permit the students enrolled in such program to complete, within six years after completing secondary school, the requirements for degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of dentistry or an equivalent degree, or doctor of osteopathy, the term 'full-time students' shall only include students enrolled on a full-time basis in the last four years of such program and for purposes of section 771, students enrolled in the first of the last four years of such program shall be considered as first-year students.". (3) Subsection (i) of section 770 is amended (A) by inserting ", public health" after "dentistry", (B) by striking out "and (b)", and (C) by redesignating it as subsection (d). (4) Subsection (j) of section 770 is redesignated as subsection (e) and is amended to read as follows: "(e) AUTHORIZATIONS or APPROPRIATIONS.—
"(1) There are authorized to be appropriated $124,182,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $131,683,800 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $139,400,100 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of medicine. "(2) There are authorized to be appropriated $8,680,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $9,337,750 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $10,159,800 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section for schools of osteopathy. "(3) There are authorized to be appropriated $43,798,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $45,409,550 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $46,909,800 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section for schools of dentistry. "(4) There are authorized to be appropriated $9,739,800 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $10,462,200 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $11,060,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of public health. "(5) There are authorized to be appropriated $10,219,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $10,548,750 for t ho fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $10,705,350 for the fiscal
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