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 94 STAT. 516 Ante, pp. 512, 513.

PUBLIC LAW 96-272—JUNE 17, 1980 sections 408 and 472 of the Social Security Act and on the reasons for such placements together with a description of the extent to which such placements have contributed to the achievement of the objectives of this title, including such recommendations as he may deem appropriate with respect to the continuation (in such section 472) of authority to make Federal payments for dependent children voluntarily placed in foster care. CHILD WELFARE SERVICES

SEC. 103. (a) Part B of title IV of the Social Security Act is amended (subject to subsection (c) of this section) by striking out all that precedes section 426 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "PART B—CHILD WELFARE SERVICES APPROPRIATION

42 USC 620.

"SEC. 420. (a) For the purpose of enabling the United States, through the Secretary, to cooperate with State public welfare agencies in establishing, extending, and strengthening child welfare services, there is authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year the sum of $266,000,000. "(b) Funds appropriated for any fiscal year pursuant to the authorization contained in subsection (a) shall be included in the appropriation Act (or supplemental appropriation Act) for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which such funds are available for obligation. In order to effect a transition to this method of timing appropriation action, the preceding sentence, shall apply notwithstanding the fact that its initial application will result in the enactment in the same year (whether in the same appropriation Act or otherwise) of two separate appropriations, one for the then current fiscal year and one for the succeeding fiscal year. "ALLOTMENTS TO STATES

42 USC 621.

"SEC. 421. (a) The sum 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: He shall first allot $70,000 to each State, and shall then allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the remainder of such sum as the product of (1) the population of the State under the age of twenty-one and (2) the allotment percentage of the State (as determined under this section) bears to the sum of the corresponding products of all the States. "Allotment "(b) The 'allotment percentage' for any State shall be 100 per percentage." centum less the State percentage; and the State percentage shall be the percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the United States; except that (1) the allotment percentage shall in no case be less than 30 per centum or more than 70 per centum, and (2) the allotment percentage shall be 70 per centum in the case of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Promulgation by "(c) The allotment percentage for each State shall be promulgated Secretary. ^y the Secretary between October 1 and November 30 of each evennumbered year, on the basis of the average per capita income of each State and of the United States for the three most recent calendar

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