---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1391"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1391"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1391"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Grants for Planning Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation"
---

# §1391. Authorization of appropriations


For the purpose of assisting the [States](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) ([including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa) to plan for and take other steps leading to comprehensive [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) and community action to combat mental retardation, there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,200,000. There are also authorized to be appropriated, for assisting such [States](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) in initiating the implementation and carrying out of planning and other steps to combat mental retardation, $2,750,000 for the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1966, and $2,750,000 for the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1967.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVII, § 1701, as added Pub. L. 88–156, § 5, Oct. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 275; amended Pub. L. 89–97, title II, § 211(a), July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 356.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–97 authorized appropriations of $2,750,000 for fiscal years ending June 30, 1966 and 1967 for implementation of mental retardation planning.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of Pub. L. 88–156, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963”, see section 1 of Pub. L. 88–156, set out as a Short Title of 1963 Amendment note under section 1305 of this title.