---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1392"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1392"
heading: "Availability of funds during certain fiscal years; limitation on amount; utilization of grant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1392"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Grants for Planning Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation"
---

# §1392. Availability of funds during certain fiscal years; limitation on amount; utilization of grant


The sums appropriated pursuant to the first sentence of [section 1391 of this title](/usc/42/1391.md) shall be available for [grants](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) to [States](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) during the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1964, and the succeeding [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3); and the sums appropriated pursuant to the second sentence of such section for the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1966, shall be available for such [grants](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) during such year and the next two [fiscal years](/usc/42/619.md?p=3), and sums appropriated pursuant thereto for the [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) ending June 30, 1967, shall be available for such [grants](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) during such year and the succeeding [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3). Any such [grant](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) to a [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5), which shall not exceed 75 per centum of the cost of the planning and related activities involved, may be used by it to determine what action is needed to combat mental retardation in the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) and the resources available for this purpose, to develop public awareness of the mental retardation problem and of the need for combating it, to coordinate [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) and local activities relating to the various aspects of mental retardation and its prevention, [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11), or amelioration, and to plan other activities leading to comprehensive [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) and community action to combat mental retardation.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVII, § 1702, as added Pub. L. 88–156, § 5, Oct. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 275; amended Pub. L. 89–97, title II, § 211(b), July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 356.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–97 inserted provision making appropriations for fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, available for grants during such fiscal year and the next two fiscal years and the appropriation for fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, available for grants during such fiscal year and the succeeding fiscal year.