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 630 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 531 . AUGUST 14 7 1935 . Approval of State plans. Requirements . Approval by Chief of Chil dre n's Bur eau ; notification. Payment to States. 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 PLA NS SEC. 503 . (a) A State plan for maternal and child-health services must (1) provide for financial participation by the State ; (2) pro- vide 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 pro- visions as he may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports ; (5) provide for the extension and improv ement of local maternal and child-health serv- ices administered by local child-health units ; (6) provide for cooper- at ion w ith m edica l, nu rsing, and welf are g roups and organ izati ons ; 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 thereup on notify the Secretary of Labor and the State health agency of his approval. PA YME NT TO STATES Amo unt to be paid SEC. 5 0 4. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allot- quar terl y st,, p.1121. ments 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 1, 1935, an amount, which shall be used To be one-half of exclusively for carrying out the State plan, equal to one-half of the amount St ate expended un- dbr State plan. t otal sum e xpend ed du ring such quart er fo r car rying out such plan. der Met hod of comput- (b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be ing and paying amou nts. as follows Estimates to be sub- (1) The Secretary of Labor shall prior to the beginning of mitted prior to begin- ning of quarter. each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the pr ovisions of subsection (a), such estimate to Basis of estimates. b e based on (A) a report filed by the State containing its esti- mate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accord- ance with the provisions of such subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political sub- divisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one-half of the total sum of such estimated expendi- tures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, and (B) such investigation as he may find necessary. Cer tification o f (2) The Secretary of Labor shall then certify the amount so amount by Secretary of Labor ; adjustments. estimated by him to the Secretary of the Treasury, reduced or increased, as the ca se 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 amo unt 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.