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§1391 Authorization of Appropriations

Title 42 › CHAPTER 7 — SOCIAL SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER XVII — GRANTS FOR PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ACTION TO COMBAT MENTAL RETARDATION › § 1391

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Provides money to help States (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa) plan and take steps so state and local communities can work together to combat mental retardation. It makes $2,200,000 available for that purpose, and also provides $2,750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $2,750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967 to help States begin and carry out planning and initial actions.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1391

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1391

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102