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Signing of S. 1466 - National Consumer Health Information and Health Promotion Act of 1976 [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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Signing of S. 1466 - National Consumer Health Information and Health Promotion Act of 1976 [Signing Statements and Announcements]
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Digitized from Box 28 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
June 24, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The President has signed S. 1466 - National Consumer Health Information
and Health Promotion Act of 1976.
This bill authorizes HEW to conduct a new health information and health
promotion program; extends through fiscal year 1978 and expands existing
communicable disease, venereal disease and lead-based paint poisoning
prevention programs.
S. 1466 will:
-- extend for three years and expand the program of grants for the
control and prevention of a number of communicable diseases, e.g.,
venereal diseases, rat control, and immunization,
-- extend the lead-based paint poisoning prevention program through fiscal
year 1978 and redefine the responsibilities of the agencies involved in
administering that program, and
-- authorize grants and contracts in the area of health education, and re-
quire the establishment of an Office of Health Information and Health
Promotion in HEW.
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