Item PUBLIC ASSISTANCE-Continued Present law H.R. 12580 If a State submits to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare a modification of its plan which satisfies the Secretary that it will result in a substantial improvement in its old-age assistance medical program, it will receive additional Federal matching. An increase of 5 percentage points in the Federal share of the additional vendor medical expenditures up to an average of $5 a month per recipient would be made. For example: (1) It will increase the Federal share on the additional amount, within the matching maximum of $65 per month, from 65 to 70 percent in the lowest income States. (2) It will increase the Federal share on the additional amount, within the matching maximum of $65 per month, from 50 to 55 percent in the highest income States. (3) For States who are over the $65-amonth matching maximum, the Federal share would be 5 percent of the additional amount. Effective for quarter beginning Oct. 1, 1960. Bill: sec. 602. House report, pp. 9-11, 135, 136. Modifies exclusion as to vendor medical care payments to permit Federal sharing as to an individual in a medical institution as a result of a diagnosis of tuberculosis or psychosis for a period of 42 days. Effective date: July 1, 1961. Bill: Sec. 602. House report: p. 136. Provides that the Secretary would develop and revise from time to time guides or recommended standards as to the level, content, and quality of medical care and medical services for the use of the States in evaluating and improving their public assistance medical care programs and their programs of medical services for the aged. For this purpose, the Secretary would also be directed to secure information from the States on their medical care and medical services under these programs and to publish these reports and other necessary information. Bill: Sec. 705. House report: pp. 9-10, 139. 58387 0-60- -3 Item MATERNAL AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES-Continued Present law H.R. 12580 No specific provision in the law.. Authorizes $17 million per year. Out of the sum appropriated allots to a State such portion of $60,000 as the amount appropriated bears to the amount authorized to be appropriated. The remainder of sums appropriated shall be alloted so that each State shall have an amount which bears the same ratio to the total remainder as the product of (1) the population of each State under the age of 21 and (2) the allotment percentage (based on relative per capita income) bears to the sum of the corresponding products of all the States. No provision. Same as C above. Authorizes $20 million per year. Authorizes appropriation for grants by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning and to public and nonprofit agencies and organizations engaged in research or child welfare activities, for special research or demonstration projects for the demonstration of new methods or facilities which show promise of substantial contribution to the advancement of child welfare. Bill: Sec. 707(b) (3). House report: pp. 50, 140. Item EMPLOYMENT SECURITY (UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION) Present law H.R. 12580 Coverage is extended, generally effective in 1962, to several categories of employees presently specifically excluded. These include: (1) Employees of certain instrumentalities of the United States which are neither wholly or partially owned by the United States, including Federal Reserve banks, Federal credit unions, Federal land banks, and others. Employees of partially owned instrumentalities such as banks for cooperatives and Federal intermediate credit banks are brought under the unemployment compensation program for Federal employees, effective in 1961. (2) Employees serving on or in connection with American aircraft outside the United States. (3) Employees of "feeder organizations,' all of whose profits are payable to a nonprofit organization and employees of nonprofit organizations which are not exempt from income tax. (4) Certain employees of certain taxexempt organizations, including agricultural and horticultural organizations, voluntary employee beneficiary associations, and fraternal beneficiary societies. Bill: Secs. 531-535. House report, pp. 55-56, 124-126. Puerto Rico will be treated as a State for the purposes of the Federal-State unemployment compensation system beginning Jan. 1, 1961. Federal employees and ex-servicemen will not have their benefits computed under Puerto Rican law until 1966. Bill: Secs. 541-543. House report, pp. 57, 127-128. Effective in 1961, the tax rate is raised to 3.1 percent on the 1st $3,000 of covered wages, which results in a net Federal tax of 0.4 percent of taxable payroll. Bill: Sec. 523. House report, pp. 55, 118. No change in State accounts. |