Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 2.djvu/1374

 94 STAT. 2652

42 USC 1396a.

42 USC 1396a note. 42 USC 1396.

PUBLIC LAW 96-499—DEC. 5, 1980

by an organization recognized by the Secretary, and performs services in the area of management of the care of mothers and babies (throughout the maternity cycle) which he is legally authorized to perform in the State in which he performs such services.", (b) Section 1902(a) of such Act is amended— (1) by striking out "clauses (1) through (5)" in paragraph (13)(B) and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs (1) through (5) and (17)"; (2) by striking out "clauses (1) through (5)" in paragraph (13)(C)(i) and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs (1) through (5) and (17)"; (3) by striking out "clauses numbered (1) through (16)" in paragraph (13)(C)(ii) and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs numbered (1) through (17)"; and (4) by striking out "clauses (1) through (5) and (7)" in paragraph (14)(A)(i) and inserting in lieu thereof "paragraphs (1) through (5), (7), and (17)". (c)(1) The amendments made by this section shall (except as provided under paragraph (2)) be effective with respect to payments under title XIX of the Social Security Act for calendar quarters beginning more than one hundred and twenty days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) In the case of a State plan for medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act which the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines requires State legislation in order for the plan to meet the additional requirements imposed by the amendments made by this section, the State plan shall not be regarded as failing to comply with the requirements of such title solely on the basis of its failure to meet these additional requirements before the first day of the first calendar quarter beginning after the close of the first regular session of the State legislature that begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS RELATING TO THE TRAINING OF AFDC RECIPIENTS AS HOME HEALTH AIDES

42 USC 632a.

"Eligible participant.'

42 USC 601.

SEC. 966. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall enter into agreements with States, selected at his discretion, for the purpose of conducting demonstration projects for the training and employment of eligible participants as homemsikers or home health aides, who shall provide authorized services to elderly or disabled individuals, or other individuals in need of such services, to whom such services, are not otherwise reasonably and actually available or provided, and who would, without the availability of such services, be reasonably anticipated to require institutional care. (b) For purposes of this section, the term "eligible participant" means an individual who has voluntarily applied for participation and who, at the time such individual enters the project established under this section, has been certified by the appropriate agency of State or local government as being eligible for financial assistance under a State plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act and as having continuously received such financial assistance during the ninety-day period which immediately precedes the date on which such individual enters such project and who, within such ninety-day period, had not been employed as a homemaker or home health aide. (c)(1) The Secretary shall enter into agreements under this section with no more than twelve States. Priority shall be given to States

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