The bill for the first time specifically authorizes sums for hospitalization. Although the act has authorized the cost of hospitalization since 1965. the program has been unable to stretch the appropriations to cover this vital service. The witnesses have all testified that despite medicare and medicaid. less than 7 percent of the migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families receive hospital benefits. Second. We have included a provision to permit projects which so request. to use funds for the payment of premiums for health services. where adequate outreach and followup services are provided. This provision looks ahead to the day when it might be possible to enroll more and more migrant and seasonal farmworkers in an improved health care delivery system which serves the entire rural population. Third. The act also provides for the Secretary to give priority to funding over those projects whose policymaking body is composed of 51 percent or more from the population being served.