grant amounts; authorizations

grant amounts; authorizations Sec. 501. (a) Section 770(a) is amended to read as follows: “(a) Grant Computation.— The Secretary shall make annual grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry for the support of the education programs of such schools. The amount of the annual grant to each such school with an approved application shall be computed for each fiscal year as follows: “(1) Each school of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry shall receive— “(A) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $2,000 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year, “(B) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $2,050 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year, and “(C) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, $2,100 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year. “(2) (A) Each school of public health shall receive for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years an amount equal to the product of— “(i) $1,400, and “(ii) the sum of (I) the number of full-time students enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such90 STAT. 2291 fiscal year, and (II) the number of full-time equivalents of part-time students, determined pursuant to subparagraph (B), for such school for such school year. “(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A) the number of full-time equivalents of part-time students for a school of public health for any school year is a number equal to— “(i) the total number of credit hours of instruction in such year for which part-time students of such school, who are pursuing a course of study leading to a graduate degree in public health or an equivalent degree, have enrolled, divided “(ii) the greater of (I) the number of credit hours of instruction which a full-time student of such school was required to take in such year, or (II) 9, rounded to the next highest whole number. “(3) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years, each school of veterinary medicine shall receive $1,450 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year. “(4) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years, each school of optometry shall receive $765 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year, “(5) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years, each school of pharmacy (other than a school of pharmacy with a course of study of more than four years) shall receive $695 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year. Each school of pharmacy with a course of study of more than four years shall receive $695 for each full-time student enrolled in the last four years of such school. For purposes of section 771, a student enrolled in the first year of the last four years of such school shall be considered a first-year student. “(6) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years, each school of podiatry shall receive $965 for each full-time student enrolled in such school in the school year beginning in such fiscal year.”. (b) Subsection (b) of section 770 is amended to read as follows: “(b) Apportionment of Appropriations.— Notwithstanding subsection (a), if the aggregate of the amounts of the grants to be made in accordance with such subsection for any fiscal year to schools of either medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, or podiatry with approved applications exceeds the total of the amounts appropriated for such category of schools under the appropriate paragraph of subsection (e) for such grants, the amount of a school’s grant with respect to which such excess exists shall for such fiscal year be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount determined for the school under subsection (a) as the total of the amounts appropriated for that year under the appropriate paragraph of subsection (e) for grants to schools of the same category as such school bears to the amount required to make grants in accordance with subsection (a) to each of the schools of that category with approved applications.”. (c) (1) Subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of section 770 are repealed. (2) Subsection (h) of section 770 is (A) redesignated as subsection (c), and (B) is amended to read as follows: 90 STAT. 2292 “(c) 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 of 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 $10,219,600 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $10,648,750 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $10,705,350 for the fiscal90 STAT. 2293 year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of veterinary medicine. “(6) There are authorized to lie appropriated $3,204,585 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $3,272,670 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $3,366,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of optometry. “(7) There are authorized to be appropriated $16,989,970 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $17,110,205 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $17,368,050 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of pharmacy. “(8) There are authorized to be appropriated $2,267,750 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, $2,270,645 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and $2,285,120 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, for payments under grants under this section to schools of podiatry.”. (d) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, and for each of the next two fiscal years, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to continue to make annual grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry under section 770(a) of the Public Health Service Act (as in effect on September 30, 1977) based on the number of enrollment bonus students (determined in accordance with subsections (d) and (e) of section 770 of such Act (as so in effect)) enrolled in such schools who were first-year students in such schools for school years ending before September 30, 1977, except that the amount of any grant made to such a school from sums appropriated under this subsection may not exceed the amount of the grant the school received in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977, based on the number of such students enrolled in it. (e) Effective October 1, 1977, the heading for part E of title VII is amended to read as follows: “Part E— Grants To Improve the Quality of Schools of Medicine, Osteopathy, Dentistry, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, and Podiatry”. (f) The amendments made by subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall apply with respect to appropriations under section 770 of the Public Health Service Act, and grants under that section, for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1977.