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TITLE XVII—GRANTS FOR PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ACTION TO COMBAT MENTAL RETARDATION[1]

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TITLE[2]

Sec. 1701. Authorization of appropriations

Sec. 1702. Grants to States

Sec. 1703. Applications

Sec. 1704. Payments


[1]  Title XVII of the Social Security Act is administered by the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education.

Title XVII appears in the United States Code as §§1391-1394, subchapter XVII, chapter 7, Title 42.

No regulations have been promulgated for Title XVII.

Title XVII was added to the Social Security Act by P.L. 88-156, “Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963”, §5 (77 Stat. 273, 275), effective October 24, 1963; however, it now is inactive.

[2]This table of contents does not appear in the law

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