Social Security Act of 1935
TITLE V- GRANTS TO STATES FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD WELFARE
PART 1-MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES
PART 2-SERVICES FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
PART 3-CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
PART 4-VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
PART 5-ADMINISTRATION
PART 1-MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES
APPROPRIATION
SECTION 501. For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, services for promoting the health of mothers and children, especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $3,800,000. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, State plans for such services.
ALLOTMENTS TO STATES
SEC. 502. (a) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 501 for
each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to each State $20,000,
and such part of $1,800,000 as he finds that the number of live births
in such State bore to the total number of live births in the United States,
in the latest calendar year for which the Bureau of the Census has available
statistics.
(b) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 501 for each fiscal
year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to the States $980,000 (in addition
to the allotments made under subsection (a)), according to the financial
need of each State for assistance in carrying out its State plan, as determined
by him after taking into consideration the number of live births in such
State.
(c) The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection (a) for any
fiscal year remaining unpaid to such State at the end of such fiscal year
shall be available for payment to such State under section 504 until the
end of the second succeeding fiscal year. No payment to a State under
section 504 shall be made out of its allotment for any fiscal year until
its allotment for the preceding fiscal year has been exhausted or has
ceased to be available.
APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS
SEC. 503. (a) A State plan for maternal and child-health services must
(2) provide for the administration of the plan by the State health agency
or the supervision of the administration of the plan by the State health
agency;
(3) provide such methods of administration (other than those relating
to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel) as are
necessary for the efficient operation of the plan;
(4) provide that the State health agency will make such reports, in such
form and containing such information, as the Secretary of Labor may from
time to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time
to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such
reports;
(5) provide for the extension and improvement of local maternal and child-health
services administered by local child health units;
(6) provide for cooperation with medical, nursing, and welfare groups
and organizations; and
(7) provide for the development of demonstration services in needy areas
and among groups in special need.
(b) The Chief of the Children s Bureau shall approve any plan which fulfills
the conditions specified in subsection (a) and shall thereupon notify
the Secretary of Labor and the State health agency of his approval.
PAYMENT TO STATES
SEC. 504. (a) From the sums appropriate therefor and the allotments available
under section 502 (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each
State which has an approved plan for maternal and child-health services,
for each quarter beginning with the quarter commencing July 1935, an amount,
which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal
to one-half of the total sum expended during such quarter for carrying
out such plan.
(b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows:
(1) The Secretary of Labor shall, prior the beginning of each quarter,
estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the
provisions of subsection (a), such estimate to be based on
(A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum
to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such
subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the
State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter,
and if such amount is less than one-half of the total sum of such estimated
expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected
to be derived, and
(B) such investi gation as he may find necessary.
(2) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so estimated
by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased, as the
case may be, by any sum by which the Secretary of Labor finds that his
estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount, which
should have been paid to the State for such quarter, except to the extent
that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior
quarter greater or less than the amount, estimated by the Secretary of
Labor for such prior quarter.
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division
of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement
by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times
fixed by the Secretary of Labor, the amount so certified.
(c) The Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify to the Secretary
of the Treasury the amounts to be paid to the States from the allotments
available under section 502 (b), and the Secretary of the Treasury shall,
through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior
to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, make payments
of such amounts from such allotments at the time or times specified by
the Secretary of Labor.
OPERATION OF STATE PLANS
SEC. 505. In the case of any State plan for maternal and child-health services which has been approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, if the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan, finds that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 503 to be included in the plan, he shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
PART 2-SERVICES FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
APPROPRIATION
SEC. 511. For the purpose of enabling each State to extend and improve (especially in rural areas and in areas suffering from severe economic distress), as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, services for locating crippled children and for providing medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare, for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $2,850,000. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, State plans for such services.
ALLOTMENTS TO STATES
SEC. 512. (a) Out of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 511 for
each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor shall allot to each State $20,000,
and the remainder to the States according to the need of each State as
determined by him after taking into consideration the number of crippled
children in such State in need of the services referred to section 511
and the cost of furnishing such service to them
(b) The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection (a) for any
fiscal year remaining unpaid to such State at the end of such fiscal year
shall be available for payment to such State under section 514 until the
end of the second succeeding fiscal year. No payment to a State under
section 514 shall be made out of its allotment for any fiscal year until
its allotment for the preceding fiscal year has been exhausted or has
ceased to be available.
APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS
SEC. 513. (a) A State plan for services for crippled children must
(1) provide for financial participation by the State;
(2) provide for the administration of the plan by a State agency or the
supervision of the administration of the plan by a State agency;
(3) provide such methods of administration (other than those relating
to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel) as are
necessary for the efficient operation of the plan;
(4) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form
and containing such information, as the Secretary of Labor may from time
to time require, and comply with such provisions as he may from time to
time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such
reports;
(5) provide for carrying out the purposes specified in section 511; and
(6) provide for cooperation with medical, health, nursing, and welfare
groups and organizations and with any agency in such State charged with
administering State laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically
handicapped children.
(b) The Chief of the Children s Bureau shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a) and shall thereupon notify the Secretary of Labor and the State agency of his approval.
PAYMENT TO STATES
SEC. 514. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotments
available under section 512, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to
each State which has an approved plan for services for crippled children,
for each quarter, beginning the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, an amount
which shall be used exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal
to one-half of the total sum expended during such quarter for carrying
out such plan.
(b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows:
(1) The Secretary of Labor shall, prior the beginning of each quarter,
estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the
provisions of subsection (a), such estimate to be based on
(A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum
to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such
subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the
State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter
and if such amount is less than one-half of the total sum of such estimated
expenditures the source or sources from which the difference is expected
to be derived, and
(B) such investigation as he may find necessary.
(2) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so estimated
by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased as the case
may be, by any sum by which the Secretary of Labor finds that his estimate
for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should
have been paid to the State for such quarter, except to the extent that
such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter
greater or less than the amount estimated by the Secretary of Labor for
such prior quarter.
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division
of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement
by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times
fixed by the Secretary of Labor, the amount so certified.
OPERATION OF STATE PLANS
SEC. 515. In the case of any State plan for services for crippled children which has been approved by the Chief of the Children s Bureau, if the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan finds that in the administration of the plan there a failure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 513 to be included in the plan, he shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
PART 3- CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
SEC. 521. (a) For the purpose of enabling the United States, through
the Children s Bureau, to cooperate with State public-welfare agencies
establishing, extending, and strengthening, especially in predominantly
rural areas, public-welfare services (hereinafter in this section referred
to as child-welfare services ) for the protection and care of homeless,
dependent, and neglected children, and children in danger of becoming
delinquent, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal
year, beginning with the year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $1,500,000.
Such amount shall be allotted by the Secretary of Labor for use by cooperating
State public- welfare agencies on the basis of plans developed jointly
by the State agency and the Children s Bureau, to each State, $10,000,
and the remainder to each State on the basis of such plans, not to exceed
such part of the remainder as the rural population of such State bears
to the total rural population of the United States. The amount so allotted
shall be expended for payment of part of the cost of district, county
or other local child- welfare services in areas predominantly rural, and
for developing State services for the encouragement and assist- ance of
adequate methods of community child-welfare organization in areas predominantly
rural and other areas of special need. The amount of any allotment to
a State under this section for any fiscal year remaining unpaid to such
State at the end of such fiscal year shall be available for payment to
such State under this section until the end of the second succeeding fiscal
year. No payment to a State under this section shall be made out of its
allotment for any fiscal year until its allotment for the preceding fiscal
year has been exhausted or has ceased to be available.
(b) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotments available under
subsection (a) the Secretary of Labor shall from time to time certify
to the Secretary of the Treasury the amounts to be paid to the States,
and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Division of Disbursement
of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General
Accounting Office, make payments of such amounts from such allotments
at the time or times specified by the Secretary of Labor.
PART 4- VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION
SEC. 531. (a) In order to enable the United States to cooperate with
the States and Hawaii in extending and strengthening their programs of
vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, and to continue
to carry out the provisions and purposes of the Act entitled An Act to
provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled
in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment , approved
June 2, 1920, as amended (U.S.C., title 29, ch. 4; U.S.C., Supp. VII title
29, secs. 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 39, and 40), there is hereby authorized
to be appropriated for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June
30, 1937, the sum of $841,000 for each such fiscal year in addition to
the amount of the existing authorization, and for each fiscal year thereafter
the sum of $1,938,000. Of the sums appropriated pursuant to such authorization
for each fiscal year, $5,000 shall be apportioned to the Territory of
Hawaii and the remainder shall be apportioned among the several States
in the manner provided in such Act of June 2, 1920, as amended.
(b) For the administration of such Act of June 2, 1920, as amended, by
the Federal agency authorized to administer it, there is hereby authorized
to be appropriated for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June
30, 1937, the sum of $22,000 for each such fiscal year in addition to
the amount of the existing authorization, and for each fiscal year thereafter
the sum of $102,000.
SEC. 541. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $425,000, for all necessary expenses
of the Children s Bureau in administering the provisions of this title,
except section 531.
(b) The Children s Bureau shall make such studies and investigations as
will promote the efficient administration of this title, except section
531.
(c) The Secretary of Labor shall include in his annual report to Congress
a full account of the administration of this title, except section 531.