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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§1392 Availability of Funds During Certain Fiscal Years; Limitation on Amount; Utilization of Grant

Title 42 › Chapter 7— SOCIAL SECURITY › Subchapter XVII— GRANTS FOR PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ACTION TO COMBAT MENTAL RETARDATION › § 1392

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets the Secretary give grants to States from specific appropriated funds during named years. Funds tied to the appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1964 may be used that year and the next year. Funds tied to the year ending June 30, 1966 may be used that year and the next two years. Funds tied to the year ending June 30, 1967 may be used that year and the next year. Each grant can pay up to 75% of planning and related costs. States may use the money to figure out what to do about mental retardation and what resources they have, to raise public awareness, to coordinate state and local programs (including prevention, treatment, or improvement), and to plan wider state and community action.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1392

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

The sums appropriated pursuant to the first sentence of section 1391 of this title shall be available for grants to States by the Secretary during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and the succeeding fiscal year; and the sums appropriated pursuant to the second sentence of such section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, shall be available for such grants during such year and the next two fiscal years, and sums appropriated pursuant thereto for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, shall be available for such grants during such year and the succeeding fiscal year. Any such grant to a State, which shall not exceed 75 per centum of the cost of the planning and related activities involved, may be used by it to determine what action is needed to combat mental retardation in the State and the resources available for this purpose, to develop public awareness of the mental retardation problem and of the need for combating it, to coordinate State and local activities relating to the various aspects of mental retardation and its prevention, treatment, or amelioration, and to plan other activities leading to comprehensive State and community action to combat mental retardation.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–97 inserted provision making appropriations for fiscal year ending
June 30, 1966, available for grants during such fiscal year and the next two fiscal years and the appropriation for fiscal year ending
June 30, 1967, available for grants during such fiscal year and the succeeding fiscal year.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1392

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60