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20 U.S.C. § 124 — Transfer of Freedmen’s Hospital to Howard University
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**(a) Purpose; authorization; agreement** For the purpose of assisting in the provision of teaching hospital resources for Howard University, thereby assisting the university in the training of medical and allied personnel and in providing hospital services for the community, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall, pursuant to agreement with the board of trustees of Howard University, transfer to Howard University, without reimbursement, all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands in the District of Columbia, together with the buildings and improvements thereon and the personal property used in connection therewith (as determined by the Secretary), commonly known as Freedmen’s Hospital.
**(b) Congressional intent** It is the intent of Congress (1) that the transfer of Freedmen’s Hospital to Howard University be effected as soon as practicable, (2) to assure the well-being of patients at Freedmen’s Hospital during the period of transition, and (3) that the transfer be effected with minimum dislocation of the present hospital staff and maximum consideration of their interests as employees.
**(c) Report to Congress** The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall report to the Congress the terms of the agreement for such transfer.
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**(a) Purpose; authorization; agreement** For the purpose of assisting in the provision of teaching hospital resources for Howard University, thereby assisting the university in the training of medical and allied personnel and in providing hospital services for the community, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall, pursuant to agreement with the board of trustees of Howard University, transfer to Howard University, without reimbursement, all right, title, and interest of the United States in certain lands in the District of Columbia, together with the buildings and improvements thereon and the personal property used in connection therewith (as determined by the Secretary), commonly known as Freedmen’s Hospital.
**(b) Congressional intent** It is the intent of Congress (1) that the transfer of Freedmen’s Hospital to Howard University be effected as soon as practicable, (2) to assure the well-being of patients at Freedmen’s Hospital during the period of transition, and (3) that the transfer be effected with minimum dislocation of the present hospital staff and maximum consideration of their interests as employees.
**(c) Report to Congress** The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall report to the Congress the terms of the agreement for such transfer.
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**(a) Opportunity to transfer; guarantee of rights and benefits** The agreement for transfer of Freedmen’s Hospital referred to in [section 124 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section124&num=0&edition=prelim) shall include provisions to assure that—
(1) all individuals who are career or career-conditional employees of the hospital on the day preceding the effective date of the transfer of the hospital, except those in positions with respect to which they have been notified not less than six months prior to the effective date of such transfer that their positions are to be abolished, will be offered an opportunity to transfer to Howard University;
(2) Howard University—
(A) will not reduce the salary levels for such employees who transfer,
(B) will deposit currently (i) in the civil service retirement and disability fund referred to in [section 8348 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8348&num=0&edition=prelim), the employee deductions and agency contributions required by subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, and (ii) in the fund referred to in [section 8714 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8714&num=0&edition=prelim), the employee deductions and agency contributions required by chapter 87 of title 5.
(C) will provide other benefits for such employees as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to those generally applicable, on the effective date of the transfer of the hospital, to civilian employees of the United States, and
(D) in determining the seniority rights of its employees, Howard University will credit service with Freedmen’s Hospital performed by such employees who transfer, on the same basi
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For the purpose specified in [section 124 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section124&num=0&edition=prelim), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the construction of a building or buildings and facilities, including equipment, and for remodeling of existing buildings (including repair and replacement of equipment) which are to be combined with the building or buildings and facilities so constructed, to provide a hospital with a capacity of not to exceed five hundred beds.
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If, within twenty years after the completion of construction (as determined by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) of the new hospital facilities authorized by [section 126 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section126&num=0&edition=prelim), any of such facilities, or of the facilities transferred pursuant to [section 124 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section124&num=0&edition=prelim) and combined with such new facilities, are transferred by Howard University to any other person or entity (except a transfer to the United States) or cease to be operated by the university as teaching hospital facilities, the United States shall be entitled to recover from the transferee or the university, in the case of a transfer, or from the university, if there is no transfer, an amount equal to the then value of such facilities (or so much thereof as is involved in the transfer, as the case may be), such value to be determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 125
§ 124. Transfer of Freedmen’s Hospital to Howard
University
(a) Purpose; authorization; agreement
For the purpose of assisting in the provision of
teaching hospital resources for Howard Univer-
sity, thereby assisting the university in the
training of medical and allied personnel and in
providing hospital services for the community,
the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
shall, pursuant to agreement with the board of
trustees of Howard University, transfer to How-
ard University, without reimbursement, all
right, title, and interest of the United States in
certain lands in the District of Columbia, to-
gether with the buildings and improvements
thereon and the personal property used in con-
nection therewith (as determined by the Sec-
retary), commonly known as Freedmen’s Hos-
pital.
(b) Congressional intent
It is the intent of Congress (1) that the trans-
fer of Freedmen’s Hospital to Howard University
be effected as soon as practicable, (2) to assure
the well-being of patients at Freedmen’s Hos-
pital during the period of transition, and (3) that
the transfer be effected with minimum disloca-
tion of the present hospital staff and maximum
consideration of their interests as employees.
(c) Report to Congress
The Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel-
fare shall report to the Congress the terms of
the agreement for such transfer.
(Pub. L. 87–262, § 1, Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 542.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of Secretary of Health, Education, and
Welfare under laws relating to relationship between
Howard University and Department of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare transferred to Secretary of Edu-
cation by section 3441(a)(2)(M) of this title.
REPEAL OF L
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