Volume 62 · 537
Public Law 80–554
To amend the provisions of title VI of the Public Health Service Act relating to standards of maintenance and operation for hospitals receiving aid under that title.
Approved June 19, 1948
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the provisions of title VI of the Public Health Service Act relating to standards of maintenance and operation for hospitals receiving aid under that title.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (d) of section 623 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, is amended
to read:
“(d) If any State, prior to July 1, 1948, has not enacted legislation
Allotments to States for construction.
providing that compliance with minimum standards of maintenance and operation shall be required prior to that date (or, at the option of the State, required within such time after enactment of the legislation as the Surgeon General finds reasonable) in the case of hospitals which shall have received Federal aid under this title, such State shall not be entitled to any further allotments under section 624 until such time
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as such State has enacted such legislation. Upon enactment of such legislation after July 1, 1948, the prohibition in this subsection against further allotments to such State under this part shall no longer be effective and such State shall, subject to the other requirements of this part, be entitled to allotments under section 624 for the fiscal year in which such legislation is enacted and for the preceding fiscal year.”
Approved June 19, 1948.