committee on mental health and illness of the elderly

committee on mental health and illness of the elderly Sec. 603. (a) The Secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare shall appoint a Committee on Mental Health and Illness of (he Elderly (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Committee”) to make a study of and recommendations respecting— (1) the future needs for mental health facilities, manpower, research, and training to meet the mental health care needs of elderly persons, (2) the appropriate care of elderly persons who are in mental institutions or who have been discharged from such institutions, and (3) proposals for implementing the recommendations of the 1971 White House Conference on Aging respecting the mental health of the elderly. (b) Within one year from the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall report, to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, of the House of Representatives the findings of the Committee under the study under subsection (a) and the Committee’s recommendations under such subsection. (c) (1) The Committee shall be composed of nine members appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The Committee shall include at least one member from each of the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social science, social work, and nursing. Each member of the Committee shall by training, experience, or attainments be exceptionally qualified to assist in carrying out the functions of the Committee. (2) Members of the Committee shall receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS–18 of the General Schedule, for each day (including traveltime) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Committee. While away from their homes or regular places of business in the performance of services for the Committee, members of the Committee shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu 89 STAT. 348of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703(b) of title 5 of the United States Code. (d) The Committee shall cease to exist thirty days after the sub-mission of the report pursuant to subsection (b).