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PUBLIC LAW 89-97-JULY 30, 1965

[79 STAT.

AMENDMENT TO DEFINITION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE AGED 74 Stat. 991. 42 USC 306.

76 Stat, 204. 42 USC 1385.

42 USC 301, 1385.

SEC. 222. (a^ Section 6(b) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking out "who are not recipients of old-age assistance" and inserting in lieu thereof "who are not recipients of old-age assistance (except, for any month, for recipients of old-age assistance who are admitted to or discharged from a medical institution during such month)". (b) Section 1605(b) of such Act is amended by striking out "who are not recipients of aid to the a ^ d, blind, or disabled" and inserting in lieu thereof "who are not recipients of aid to the aged, blind, or disabled (except, for any month, for recipients of aid to the aged, blind, or disabled who are admitted to or discharged from a medical institution during such month)". (c) The amendments made by this section shall apply in the case of expenditures under a State plan approved under title I or XVI of the Social Security Act with respect to care and services provided under such plan after June 1965. PART 4—MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE H E A L T H STUDY O F RESOURCES RELATING TO CHILDREN'S EMOTIONAL ILLNESS

Program grants.

"Organization.'*

Appropriation.

Reports to Congress.

ggc. 231. (a) Tho Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized, upon the recommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Council and after securing the advice of experts in pediatrics and child welfare, to make grants for carrying out a program of research into and study of our resources, methods, and practices for diagnosing or preventing emotional illness in children and of treating, caring for, and rehabilitating children with emotional illnesses. (b) Such grants may be made to one or more organizations, but only on condition that the organization will undertake and conduct, or if more than one organization is to receive such grants, only on condition that such organizations have agreed among themselves to undertake and conduct, a coordinated program of research into and study of all aspects of the resources, methods, and practices referred to in subsection (a). (c) As used m subsection (b), the term "organization" means a nongovernmental agency, or^nization, or commission, composed of representatives of leading national medical, welfare, educational, and other professional associations, organizations, or agencies active in the field of mental health of children. (d) There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, the sum of $500,000 to be used for a grant or grants to help initiate the research and study provided for in this section; and the sum of $500,000 for the succeeding fiscal year for the making of such grants as may be needed to carry the research and study to completion. The terms of any such grant shall provide that the research and study shall be completed not later than two years from the date it is inaugurated; that the grantee shall file annual reports with the Congress, the Secretary, and the Governors of the several States, among others that the grantee may select; and that the final report shall be similarly filed.

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