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(20) assurances that fees collected by the applicant for services rendered in accordance with this Act shall be used by the applicant to further the purposes of this Act;

(21) assurances that unemancipated minors requesting services from the applicant will be encouraged, whenever feasible, to consult with their parents with respect to such services;

(22) assurances that all pregnant adolescents receiving services will be informed of the availability of counseling (either by the entity providing core services or through a referral agreement with such other entity which provides such counseling) on all options, regarding her pregnancy;

(23) assurances that primary emphasis for services paid for with funds under this Act shall be given to pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents 17 and under who are not able to obtain needed assistance through other means; and

(24) assurances that funds received under this Act shall not supplant funds received from any other Federal, State, or local program or any private sources of funds.

(b) Each grantee which participates in the program established by this title shall make such reports concerning its use of Federal funds as the Secretary may require. Reports shall include the impact the project has had on reducing the rate of first and repeat pregnancies among adolescents, and the effect on factors usually associated with welfare dependency.

(c) The Secretary shall provide the Governor of each State copies of applications received for grants under this Act from applicants within such State. The Governor shall have a period of 60 days from receipt of such copies to review and submit comments to the Secretary.

(d) No application submitted for a grant under this Act may be approved unless the Secretary is satisfied that core services shall be available through the grantee within a reasonable time after such grant is received.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 607. For the purpose of carrying out this title, there are authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, $65,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980 and $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, and, subject to section 2194(b)(3) of the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Act, $8,530,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982.

FUND RESTRICTION

SEC. 608. No funds for grants made under the provisions of this Act may be used for payment for the performance of an abortion. TITLE VII—IMPROVING COORDINATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE PROGRAMS

SEC. 701. (a) The Secretary shall coordinate, consistent with provisions of other Federal law respecting coordination of such policies and programs, Federal policies and programs providing services re

lated to prevention of initial and repeat adolescent pregnancies. Among other things, the Secretary shall

(1) require that grantees under title VI report periodically on Federal, State, and local programs or policies that interfere with the delivery and coordination of pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services to adolescents;

(2) provide technical assistance to assure that coordination by grantees of Federal programs at the State and local level will be facilitated;

(3) recommend legislative modifications of programs of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that provide pregnancy-related services in order to facilitate their use as a base for delivery of more comprehensive pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services to adolescents;

(4) give funding priority, where appropriate, to grantees using single or coordinated grant applications for multiple programs; and

(5) give priority, where appropriate, to providing funding under existing Federal programs to projects providing comprehensive pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services. (b) A State using funds provided under title VI to improve the delivery of pregnancy prevention and pregnancy-related services throughout the State shall coordinate its activities with programs of local grantees, if any, that are funded under title VI.

(c) The Secretary shall set aside, in each fiscal year, not less than 1 per centum nor more than 3 per centum of the funds appropriated under this Act for evaluation of activities under titles VI and VII and shall designate a program unit to carry out such evaluations, which shall be a program unit other than the unit having primary administrative responsibility for carrying out the grant program authorized by this Act. The Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress, not later than February 1, 1981, and periodically thereafter copies of summaries of all such evaluations.

(d) The program unit responsible for carrying out the activities under titles VI and VII shall report directly to the Assistant Secretary for Health in consultation and in coordination with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSISTANCE AND BILL OF

RIGHTS ACT

TITLE I-PROGRAMS FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL

DISABILITIES

PART A-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 100. [6000 Note] This title may be cited as the "Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act".

FINDINGS AND PURPOSES

SEC. 101. [6000] (a) The Congress finds that—

(1) there are more than two million persons with developmental disabilities in the United States;

(2) individuals with disabilities occurring during their developmental period are more vulnerable and less able to reach an independent level of existence than other handicapped individuals who generally have had a normal developmental period on which to draw during the rehabilitation process;

(3) persons with developmental disabilities often require specialized lifelong services to be provided by many agencies in a coordinated manner in order to meet the persons' needs;

(4) generic service agencies and agencies providing specialized services to disabled persons tend to overlook or exclude persons with developmental disabilities in their planning and delivery of services; and

(5) it is in the national interest to strengthen specific programs, especially programs that reduce or eliminate the need for institutional care, to meet the needs of persons with developmental disabilities.

(b)(1) It is the overall purpose of this title to assist States to (A) assure that persons with developmental disabilities receive the care, treatment, and other services necessary to enable them to achieve their maximum potential through increased independence, productivity, and integration into the community, and (B) establish and operate a system which coordinates, monitors, plans, and evaluates services which ensures the protection of the legal and human rights of persons with developmental disabilities.

(2) The specific purposes of this title are

(A) to assist in the provision of comprehensive services to persons with developmental disabilities, with priority to those persons whose needs are not otherwise met under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other health, education, or welfare programs;

(B) to assist States in appropriate planning activities;

(C) to make grants to States and public and private, nonprofit agencies to establish model programs, to demonstrate innovative habilitation techniques, and to train professional and

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