A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of Federal financial assistance for research programs and specialized treatment centers for the study and treatment of problems respecting human fertility and sterility and the human reproductive process.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants under the Public Health Service Act for research in fertility and sterility in humans and the human reproductive process, and for training and fellowship grants to allow persons to undertake such research. Empowers the Secretary to establish in the National Institutes of Health and in the various geographical regions of the United States not more than five specialized treatment centers to (1) provide assistance to individuals seeking medical services to enable them to bear children, and (2) undertake clinical research and training in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic and treatment methods relating to problems of human reproduction. Provides that the Secretary may enter into cooperative arrangements with public and private nonprofit agencies and institutions to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, and providing basic operating support for such specialized treatment centers. Allows Federal spending for (1) construction, (2) staffing and other basic operating costs, (3) training, and (4) demonstration projects. Authorizes to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and …