Senate Bill S.2501 Authorizing Grants to States to Assist in Providing Children and Expectant Mothers with the Vaccination Against Poliomyelitis

Extracted text

OCR Page 1 of 5
Calendar No. 847 84TH CONGRESS ginnt 1ST SESSION S. 2501 bito (08 ( asi of [Report No. 839] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES and 1A alila 10 JULY 13, 1955 Mr. HILL (for himself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. MURRAY, Mr. Ives, Mr. NEELY, Mr. PURTELL, Mr. DOUGLAS, Mr. BENDER, Mr. LEHMAN, Mr. ALLOTT, KENNEDY, and Mr. McNAMARA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare -ailog lo nul atata dom of JULY 13, 1955 Reported by Mr. Hill, without amendment Mala or A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Aet to authorize grants to States for the purpose of assisting States to provide chil- dren and expectant mothers an opportunity for vaccination against poliomyelitis. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- : 1 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That section 314 of the Public Health Service Act, as 4 amended (42 U. S. C. 246) , is amended- 5 (a) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection 6 (c) (1) and by adding at the end of such subsection 7 a new paragraph as follows: 8 (2) To enable the Surgeon General to assist, through 9 grants, the States to provide children (under the age of I