Abstract

PIP: The Department is making a technical amendment to the regulations which govern federal financial participation in expenditures for abortions supported with funds appropriated to the department of (HEW) Health, Education, and Welfare and administered by the Public Health Service. The citation of authority is being amended in order to indicate that these regulations remain in effect under the Departments of HEW and Labor Appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1979. These regulations became effective as of October 1, 1978. Subpart C of 42 CFR Part 50 was originally promulgated pursuant to Public Law 95-205, the Department's Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1978. The language prohibiting the use of funds for certain abortions has been repeated in that act for fiscal year 1979. Thus, the department is reissuing Subpart C of 42 CFR Part 50 under the authority of Section 210 of Public Law 95-480, HEW, and the Labor Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1979. Because the reissuance of these regulations will not result in any substantive changes, the regulations will become effective immediately. Therefore the authority citation in Subpart C of 42 CFR Part 50 is amended as set forth below.