Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§1391 Authorization of appropriations
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - SOCIAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XVII— - GRANTS FOR PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ACTION TO COMBAT MENTAL RETARDATION › § 1391
Summary
Provides funds to help States and certain territories (DC, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa) plan and act to combat mental retardation. It authorizes $2,200,000, and $2,750,000 for the year ending June 30, 1966, and $2,750,000 for the year ending June 30, 1967.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §1391
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For the purpose of assisting the States (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa) to plan for and take other steps leading to comprehensive State and community action to combat mental retardation, there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,200,000. There are also authorized to be appropriated, for assisting such States in initiating the implementation and carrying out of planning and other steps to combat mental retardation, $2,750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $2,750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1965—Pub. L. 89–97 authorized appropriations of $2,750,000 for fiscal years ending June 30, 1966 and 1967 for implementation of mental retardation planning.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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For
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of Pub. L. 88–156, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning
Amendments
of 1963”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 88–156, set out as a
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of 1963 Amendment note under section 1305 of this title.
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Citation
42 U.S.C. § 1391
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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Apr 6, 2026
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