Military Medical Benefits: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 14088, Authorizing an Improved Health Benefits Program for Dependents of Military Personnel on Active Duty, for Retired Members, and Their Dependents, [and] S. 3169, Authorizing a Special Program for the Mentally Retarded, Mentally Ill, and Physically Handicapped Spouses, and Children of Members of the Uniformed Services, and for Other Purposes, June 22 and 24, 1966Considers H.R. 14088 and related S. 3169, to expand medical benefits for present and past military personnel and dependents. |
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Page 159 - The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any goverment, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.
Page 158 - That the governor of each state party to this compact shall designate an officer who, acting jointly with like officers of other party states, shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact.
Page 157 - Nothing in this compact shall be construed to invalidate any reciprocal agreement between a party state and a nonparty state relating to institutionalization, care or treatment of the mentally ill or mentally deficient, or any statutory authority pursuant to which such agreements may be made.
Page 156 - State" shall mean any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. ARTICLE III (a) Whenever a person physically present in any party state shall be in need of institutionalization by reason of mental illness or mental deficiency, he shall be eligible for care and treatment in an institution in that state irrespective of his residence, settlement or citizenship qualifications.
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Page 159 - State or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any State participating...
Page 210 - United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc., is a nonprofit membership corporation, organized in 1948, the only nationwide organization devoted exclusively to a united attack on cerebral palsy, a general term for a group of disorders caused by injury to the motor centers of the brain which result in impairment of voluntary muscle control. Our humanitarian work is wholly supported by voluntary public contributions. United Cerebral Palsy Associations...