---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1202a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1202a"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 87–543, title I, § 136(b), July 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 197"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1202a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter X — Grants to States for Aid to Blind"
---

# [§1202a. Repealed. Pub. L. 87–543, title I, § 136(b), July 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 197 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act Aug. 28, 1950, ch. 809, title III, pt. 4, § 344(a), 64 Stat. 554, provided, in the case of any State without a plan for aid to the blind approved on Jan. 1, 1949, for approval of the plan of such a State conforming to all requirements except those relating to determination of need and consideration of resources but conditioned payments to the State meeting the excepted requirement.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective and Termination Dates

Section 136(b) of Pub. L. 87–543 also repealed section 344(b) of act Aug. 28, 1950, as amended Sept. 1, 1954, ch. 1206, title III, § 302, 68 Stat. 1097; Apr. 25, 1957, Pub. L. 85–26, 71 Stat. 27; Aug. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85–840, title V, § 509, 72 Stat. 1051; Sept. 13, 1960, Pub. L. 86–778, title VII, § 706, 74 Stat. 995, which provided that this section should become effective Oct. 1, 1950 and terminate June 30, 1964.