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[CITE: 42USC906]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VII--ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 906. Training grants for public welfare personnel


(a) Authorization of appropriations

    In order to assist in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of 
administration of public assistance programs by increasing the number of 
adequately trained public welfare personnel available for work in public 
assistance programs, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, the sum of $3,500,000, and for 
each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $5,000,000.

(b) Allocation for carrying out direct grant programs

    Such portion of the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of 
this section for any fiscal year as the Secretary may determine, but not 
in excess of $1,000,000 in the case of the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1963, and $2,000,000 in the case of any fiscal year thereafter, shall be 
available for carrying out subsection (f) of this section. From the 
remainder of the sums so appropriated for any fiscal year, the Secretary 
shall make allotments to the States on the basis of (1) population, (2) 
relative need for trained public welfare personnel, particularly for 
personnel to provide self-support and self-care services, and (3) 
financial need.

(c) Payments to States for cost of grant programs to certain agencies 
        and institutions

    From each State's allotment under subsection (b) of this section, 
the Secretary shall from time to time pay to such State its costs of 
carrying out the purposes of this section through (1) grants to public 
or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning for training 
personnel employed or preparing for employment in public assistance 
programs, (2) special courses of study or seminars of short duration 
conducted for such personnel by experts hired on a temporary basis for 
the purpose, and (3) establishing and maintaining, directly or through 
grants to such institutions, fellowships or traineeships for such 
personnel at such institutions, with such stipends and allowances as may 
be permitted under regulations of the Secretary.

(d) Advance payments to States

    Payments pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be made in 
advance on the basis of estimates by the Secretary and adjustments may 
be made in future payments under this section to take account of 
overpayments or underpayments in amounts previously paid.

(e) Reallotments

    The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection (b) of this 
section for any fiscal year which the State certifies to the Secretary 
will not be required for carrying out the purposes of this section in 
such State shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such 
dates as the Secretary may fix, to other States which the Secretary 
determines have need in carrying out such purposes for sums in excess of 
those previously allotted to them under this section and will be able to 
use such excess amounts during such fiscal year; such reallotments to be 
made on the basis provided in subsection (b) of this section for the 
initial allotments to the States. Any amount so reallotted to a State 
shall be deemed part of its allotment under such subsection.

(f) Direct grants to certain agencies and institutions

    (1) The portion of the sums appropriated for any fiscal year which 
is determined by the Secretary under the first sentence of subsection 
(b) of this section to be available for carrying out this subsection 
shall be available to enable him to provide (A) directly or through 
grants to or contracts with public or nonprofit private institutions of 
higher learning, for training personnel who are employed or preparing 
for employment in the administration of public assistance programs, (B) 
directly or through grants to or contracts with public or nonprofit 
private agencies or institutions, for special courses of study or 
seminars of short duration (not in excess of one year) for training of 
such personnel, and (C) directly or through grants to or contracts with 
public or nonprofit private institutions of higher learning, for 
establishing and maintaining fellowships or traineeships for such 
personnel at such institutions, with such stipends and allowances as may 
be permitted by the Secretary.
    (2) Payments under paragraph (1) may be made in advance on the basis 
of estimates by the Secretary, or may be made by way of reimbursement, 
and adjustments may be made in future payments under this subsection to 
take account of overpayments or underpayments in amounts previously 
paid.
    (3) The Secretary may, to the extent he finds such action to be 
necessary, prescribe requirements to assure that any individual will 
repay the amount of his fellowship or traineeship received under this 
subsection to the extent such individual fails to serve, for the period 
prescribed by the Secretary, with a State or political subdivision 
thereof, or with the Federal Government, in connection with 
administration of any State or local public assistance program. The 
Secretary may relieve any individual of his obligation to so repay, in 
whole or in part, whenever and to the extent that requirement of such 
repayment would, in his judgment, be inequitable or would be contrary to 
the purposes of any of the public welfare programs established by this 
chapter.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, Sec. 705, as added Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 
836, title III, Sec. 332, 70 Stat. 851; amended Pub. L. 87-31, Sec. 3, 
May 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 77; Pub. L. 87-543, title I, Sec. 123 (a)-(c), 
July 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 192.)


                               Amendments

    1962--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87-543, Sec. 123(a), substituted ``for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, the sum of $3,500,000, and for 
each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $5,000,000'' for ``for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1958, the sum of $5,000,000, and for each of the 
five succeeding fiscal years such sums as the Congress may determine''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87-543, Sec. 123(b), required appropriated 
moneys to be made available for carrying out subsec. (f) of this 
section.
    Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 87-543, Sec. 123(c), added subsec. (f).
    1961--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87-31, Sec. 3(a), substituted ``five'' 
for ``four''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87-31, Sec. 3(b), substituted ``its costs of 
carrying out the purposes of this section'' for ``80 per centum of the 
total of its expenditures in carrying out the purposes of this 
section''.


                    Effective Date of 1962 Amendment

    Section 202(b) of Pub. L. 87-543 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by sections 102(c), 123, and 132(d) [enacting section 727 of this 
title, amending this section and sections 722 and 726 of this title, and 
repealing credits to section 1308 of this title and provisions set out 
as notes under section 1308 of this title] shall be applicable in the 
case of fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1962.''


                    Effective Date of 1961 Amendment

    Section 3(b) of Pub. L. 87-31 provided that the amendment made by 
that section is effective with respect to payments from allotments from 
appropriations made for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1961.
