§20 [vocational Rehabilitation Act; Amendment.]

Summary

Removes Hawaii from the list used to define "State" and deletes the old special percentages that had been set for Hawaii (an allotment percentage of 50% and a Federal share of 60%). For the rules about how allotments and Federal matching shares are figured (subsections (h) and (i)), it changes the wording from "continental United States" to "United States" and drops the parenthetical "(including Alaska)". It also sets temporary rules for Alaska: if officials must make allotment and Federal-share calculations before the Department of Commerce has a full year of per-person income data for Alaska, Alaska gets an allotment of 75% and a Federal share of 60% and is treated as outside the "United States" for those calculations. If calculations are done after one full year but before three years of Alaska data exist, they must use whatever one- or two-year data are available. For these parts of the law, the term "United States" means the fifty States and the District of Columbia.