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PUBLIC LAW 90.248-JAN. 2, 1968

[81 STAT.

"ALLCyiMENTS TO STATES

Ante. p. 911.

Post.

p. 9 1 3.

"SEC. 421. TliB suni appropriated pursuant to section 420 for each fiscal year shall be allotted by the Secretary for use by cooperating State public welfare agencies which have plans developed jointly by the State agency and the Secretary, as follows: H e shall allot $70,000 to each State, and shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the remainder of the sum so appropriated for such year as the product of (1) the population of such State under the age of 21 and (2) the allotment percentage of such State (as determined under section 423) bears to the sum of the corresponding products of all the States. "PAYMENT TO STATES

"SEC. 422. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotment available under this part, the Secretary shall from time to time pay to each State— Post, p. 915. "(1) that has a plan for child-welfare services which has been , developed as provided in this part and which— " (A) provides for coordination between the services provided under such plan and the services provided for depend42 USC 601-609. gj^^ children under the State plan approved under part A of " ^' '^- • this title, with a view to provision of welfare and related services which will best promote the welfare of such children and their families, and " (B) provides, with respect to day care services (including the provision of such care) provided under this title— " (i) for cooperative arrangements with the State health authority and the State agency primarily responsible for State supervision of public schools to assure maximum utilization of such agencies in the provision of necessary health services and education for children receiving day care, "(ii) for an advisory committee, to advise the State public welfare agency on the general policy involved in the provision of day care services under the plan, which shall include among its members representatives of other State agencies concerned with day care or services related thereto and persons representative of professional or civic or other public or nonprofit private agencies, organizations, or groups concerned with the provision of day care, "(iii) for such safeguards as may be necessary to assure provision of day care under the plan only in cases in which it is in the best interest of the child and the mother and only in cases in which it is determined, under criteria establislied by the State, that a need for such care exists; and, in cases in which the family is able to pay part or all of the costs of such care, for payment of such fees as may be reasonable in the light of such ability, " (iv) for giving priority, in determining the existence of need for such day care, to members of low-income or other groups in the population, and to geographical areas, which have the greatest relative need for extension of such day care, and " (v) that day care provided under the plan will be provided only in facilities (including private homes) which are licensed by the State, or approved (as meeting the standards established for such licensing) by the State agency responsible for licensing facilities of this type, and

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