broadening eligibility for construction grants

broadening eligibility for construction grants Sec. 402. (a) Effective with respect to fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 1969— (1) Section 106 (1) and (2) of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, as amended, is amended by inserting after “enrollment capacity” in each case the following: “, capacity to provide needed healthcare to students or personnel of the institution,”. (2) The second sentence of section 107(a) of such Act is amended by striking out “and” before “(2)” and by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: “, and (3) shall give consideration to expansion of capacity to provide needed health care to students and institutional personnel”. (3) Section 108(b) of such Act is amended by striking out “and”, at the end of paragraph (5), redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7) and inserting after paragraph (5) the following: “(6) in the case of a project to construct an infirmary or other facility designed to provide primarily for outpatient care of students and institutional personnel, he determines that no financial assistance will be provided such project under title IV of the Housing Act of 1950; and”. 82 Stat. 1060 (4) Section 303(a) is amended by striking out “and” at the end of clause (2), and by inserting before the period the following: “, and (4) that, in the case of a project to construct an infirmary or other facility designed to provide primarily for outpatient care of students and institutional personnel, no financial assistance will be provided such project under title IV of the Housing Act of 1950”. (5) The first sentence of section 401(a) of such Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: “; and, for purposes of titles I and III, such term includes infirmaries or other facilities designed to provide primarily for outpatient care of students and institutional personnel”. (b) (1) Section 106 of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new sentence: “If the Commissioner finds that the student enrollment capacity of an institution would decrease if an urgently needed academic facility is not constructed, construction of such a facility may be considered, for the purposes of this section, to result in expansion of the institution’s student enrollment capacity.”. (2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be effective only with respect to grants made from appropriations for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1969.