Volume 77
Public Law 88–230
To amend the Art of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 986), as amended, relating to adult Indian vocational training.
Approved December 23, 1963
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Art of August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 986), as amended, relating to adult Indian vocational training.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
the first
Indians.
Vocational training.
section of the Act entitled “An Act relating to employment for certain adult Indians on or near Indian reservations”, approved August 3, 1956 (70 Stat. 986; 25 U.S.C. 309), is amended (i) by inserting in the first sentence thereof immediately after “twenty-four months,” the following: “and, for nurses’ training, for periods that do not exceed thirty-six months,” and (2) by striking out the period at the end of the last sentence in such section and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: “or with any school of nursing offering a three-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Secretary.”.
Section 2 of said Act of August 3, 1956, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 2.
There is authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act the sum of $12,000,000 for each fiscal year, and not to exceed $1,500.000 of such sum shall be available for administrative purposes.”
Approved December 23, 1963.