VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF PERSONS DISABLED IN INDUSTRY 25 JOINT HEARINGS U.S. Congress. Sen BEFORE THE COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION AND LABOR SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 4922 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROMOTION OF VOCATIONAL CIVIL EMPLOYMENT Printed for the use of the Committees on Education and Labor WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1919 VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF PERSONS DISABLED IN INDUSTRY. COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, December 10, 1918. The Committees on Education and Labor held a joint meeting this day, at 10.15 o'clock a. m., Hon. Hoke Smith, chairman of the Senate committee, presiding: Present: Senators Hoke Smith (chairman), Kenyon, and Page; Representatives Bankhead, Towner, Platt, and Dallinger. Also present: Dr. R. M. Little, former chairman of Federal Compensation Committee; Charles H. Verrill, of the United States Employees Compensation Commission; Lieut. Col. Harry L. Mock. of the Surgeon General's office, U. S. A.; and Dr. C. A. Prosser. The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, we will consider this morning S. 4922, which will appear in the record at this point. S. 4922, Sixty-fifth Congress, second session. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. Mr. SMITH of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee an Education and Labor. A BILL To provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment there is hereby appropriated for the use of the States, subject to the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of cooperating with them in the maintenance of vocational rehabilitation of such disabled persons, and in returning vocationally rehabilitated persons to civil employment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $500,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundrd and twenty, the sum of $750,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and annually thereafter, the sum of $1,000,000. Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population in the United States, not including Territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia, according to the last preceding United States census: Provided, That the allotment of funds to any State shall not be less than a mimimum of $5,000 for any fiscal year. And there is hereby appropriated the following sums, or so much thereof as may be needed, which shall be used for the purpose of providing the minimum allotment to the States provided for in this section, for the fiscal year ending June thirteith, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sun of $66,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of $46,000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and annually thereafter, the sum of $34,000. 3 |