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PUBLIC LAW 565-AUG. 3, 1954 Public Law 565

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ST A T.

CHAPTER 655

AN ACT To amend the Vocational Rehabilitation Act so as to promote and assist in the extension and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services, provide for a more effective use of available Federal funds, and otherwise improve the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the h a'b^rV°TL u ^n United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be Amendments of cited as the "Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954". 1954. AMENDMENTS TO THE V OCATIONAL R E H A B I L I T A T I O N ACT 41 Stat. 735.

SEC. 2. The Vocational Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. ch. 4) is amended to read as follows: AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR GRANTS; PURPOSES FOR W H I C H AVAILABLE

1. For the purpose of assisting the States in rehabilitating physically handicapped individuals so that they may prepare for and engage in remunerative employment to the extent of their capabilities, thereby increasing not only their social and economic well-being b u t also the productive capacity of the Nation, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, the sum of $30,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, the sum of $45,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $55,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, the sum of $65,000,000, and for each fiscal year thereafter such sums as Congress may determine, for grants to carry out the purposes of this Act. The sums so appropriated for any fiscal year shall be available for— "(1) grants to States under section 2 to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services; "(2) grants to States under section 3 to assist them in initiating projects for the extension and improvement of their vocational rehabilitation services; and "(3) grants to States and to public and other nonprofit organizations and agencies under section 4 to assist in meeting the costs of projects for research, demonstrations, training, and traineeships, and special projects, which hold promise of making a substantial contribution to the solution of vocational rehabilitation problems common to a number of States, including temporary assistance in initiating a substantial nationwide expansion of vocational rehabilitation programs in the States. The portion of such sums which shall be available for each of such three types of grants shall be specified in the Act appropriating such sums, except that the first $23,000,000 of the aggregate sums so appropriated for any fiscal year shall be available for grants to States under section 2 to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services. "SECTION

Types of grants.

AvaUabliity.

"GRANTS TO STATES FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES

"SEC. 2. (a)(1) From the sums available for any fiscal year for grants to States to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services, each State shall be entitled to an allotment of an amount which bears the same ratio to such sums as the product of (A) the population of the State and (B) the square of its allotment percentage (as defined in section 11(h)) bears to the sum of the corresponding products for all the States.

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