Health Services Amendments

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Health Services Amendments - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1979 for grants to States for comprehensive State health planning. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under the Act, to make grants to State health authorities to assist in meeting the costs of providing comprehensive public health services. Directs that funds received should be used to supplement non-Federal funds for comprehensive public health services and not to supplant such funds. Provides guidelines by which each State and local public health entity shall compute the amount of such funds it shall receive. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State public health authority to determine if such authority complied with the assurances provided with the application for funds. Authorizes the Secretary to withhold payment from authorities which have failed to meet such assurances. Provides that the total amount of grants received by a public health authority shall be determined by the Secretary and provides guidelines by which such a determination is to be made. Extends the authorization of appropri…