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[CITE: 42USC1351]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO PERMANENTLY AND TOTALLY 
                                DISABLED
 
Sec. 1351. Authorization of appropriations

    For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial 
assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to 
needy individuals eighteen years of age and older who are permanently 
and totally disabled, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for 
each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this 
subchapter. The sums made available under this section shall be used for 
making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the 
Secretary, State plans for aid to the permanently and totally disabled.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIV, Sec. 1401, as added Aug. 28, 1950, 
ch. 809, title III, pt. 5, Sec. 351, 64 Stat. 555; amended 1953 Reorg. 
Plan No. 1, Secs. 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; 
Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 836, title III, Sec. 314(a), 70 Stat. 849; Pub. L. 87-
543, title I, Sec. 104(c)(4), July 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 186; Pub. L. 97-
35, title XXI, Sec. 2184(c)(1), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 817.)

                            Repeal of Section

        Pub. L. 92-603, title III, Sec. 303(a), (b), Oct. 30, 1972, 86 
    Stat. 1484, provided that this section is repealed effective Jan. 1, 
    1974, except with respect to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin 
    Islands.


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-35 struck out ``and of encouraging each State, as 
far as practicable under such conditions, to furnish rehabilitation and 
other services to help such individuals attain and retain capability for 
self-support or self-care'' after ``and totally disabled''.
    1962--Pub. L. 87-543 inserted ``to furnish rehabilitation and other 
services'' before ``to help such individuals'' and ``or retain 
capability for'' after ``attain''.
    1956--Act Aug. 1, 1956, restated purpose to include assistance to 
individuals to attain self-support of self-care.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security 
Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by 
section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 
3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator 
abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and 
Department of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-
88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
