PEDIATRICS Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1949, pp. 563-568
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TRENDS IN HEALTH LEGISLATION AND ADMINISTRATION

JOSEPH S. WALL M.D.1

1 Chairman, Committee on Legislation

Editors: JOHN P. HUBBARD, M.D..

THE 81st Congress continues to receive an increasing number and variety of health bills. Among this growing list, we wish at this time to draw attention to the following:

National Child Research Bill

In February we published in this column a preliminary draft of "The National Child Research Bill." This bill, with few but significant changes, was introduced into the Senate by Senator Douglas on February 10 as S.904. In preliminary draft form this bill provided for a National Child Research Institute to be established in the Children's Bureau. Thus it was intended that there should be created within the Children's Bureau a separate institute comparable to the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service. In S.904 there is no mention of a separate institute; it is proposed that the Children's Bureau itself be "authorized to establish and carry out a program of research in child life and development" with such additional quarters as may be necessary to enable the Bureau to discharge its functions provided for in this bill. In other respects S.904 is identical to the draft bill previously published.

The School Health Services Bill

This bill, preliminary draft of which was also published in this column in February, became entangled in legislative strategy from which it has not emerged as of present date (February 23, 1949). In late January there arose within the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare a proposal to add school health services to S.246, a bill calling for $300,000,000 a year in Federal aid to elementary and secondary schools. An additional annual appropriation of $25,000,000 to be used for school health services was suggested as an amendment to S.246 with a formula to be worked out for the distribution of the funds through the state education agencies. (The School Health Services Bill proposed by Senator Saltonstall in the 80th Congress, S.1290, called for an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the first year and $15,000,000 for the second year.)