To Authorize the Operation by Blind Persons of Stands in Federal Buildings: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on H.R. 4349...May 14, 19411941 - 42 pages |
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administration amendment American Association American Foundation approved Arkansas assistance Association of Workers basic Randolph-Sheppard Act blind persons buildings by blind chairman CLUNK Columbia Association Commissioner of Education Congress CONNERY consideration D. C. MY DEAR DEAR CONGRESSMAN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL director District of Columbia employable employment enlarge the economic executive secretary favor Federal buildings Federal funds Federal Government Federal Service feel FRANKSTON Handy HAZEL H helpful House of Representatives industry interested in H. R. IRWIN Jersey JOHN LESINSKI Labor Committee LANDIS legislative committee legislature licensing agency Massachusetts ment Miss MCKAY NORRELL Office of Education Ohio operation of stands opportunities PAUL G Pennsylvania percent placement agents placement of blind proposed provisions Rhode Island Sincerely SOCIAL WELFARE stand equipment stand operator stand program stands in Federal STATEMENT subcommittee subsection Supervisor surveys Thank tion vending stands Vocational Rehabilitation Washington West Virginia WILLIAM H York
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Page 12 - ... provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports...
Page 12 - State under this part (or, in his discretion, further payments to the State will be limited to programs under or portions of the State plan not affected by such failure) until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied, the Commissioner shall make no further payments to such State under...
Page 10 - ... visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees, (e) ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION FOR DEPENDENTS.
Page 10 - blind person' means a person having not more than 20/200 visual acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees. Such blindness shall be certified by a duly licensed physician skilled in the diseases of the human eye. "(b) The term 'Federal property...
Page 39 - SO, 1964. Hon. KENNETH A. ROBERTS, Chairman,, Subcommittee on Health and Safety of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Washington, DC DEAR SIR : I am writing to you on behalf of HR 10043, and would like to request that my letter be included in the records of the hearing on this legislation. As a teacher of preventive medicine and public health in a medical school, I am keenly aware of the severe shortage of physicians who have had adequate training in this...
Page 9 - Make available to the public, and especially to persons and organizations engaged in work for the blind, information obtained as a result of such surveys ; (4) Designate as provided in section 3 of this Act the State commission for the blind in each State, or, in any State in which there is no such commission some other public agency to issue licenses to blind persons who are citizens of the United States and at least twenty-one years of age for the operating of vending stands in Federal and other...
Page 37 - An Act to authorize the operation of stands in Federal buildings by blind persons, to enlarge the economic opportunities of the blind, and for other purposes," approved June 20, 1936, 49 Stat.
Page 11 - Provided further, That such portions of the sums allotted that will not be used in any fiscal year may be allotted in that year proportionately to the States which are prepared through available State funds to use the additional Federal funds.
Page 12 - Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan; and (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the...
Page 39 - I am a member of the legislative committees of the American Association of Workers for the Blind and the American Association of Instructors of the Blind.