Volume 71 · 309
Public Law 85–110
To give the States an option with respect to the basis for claiming Federal participation in vendor medical care payments for recipients of public assistance.
Approved July 17, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To give the States an option with respect to the basis for claiming Federal participation in vendor medical care payments for recipients of public assistance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 305 of the Social Security Amendments of 1956 (Public Law 880, Eighty-fourth Congress) is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 305. “effective date
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the amendments made by this part shall become effective July 1, 1957.
“(b) The amendments made by any section of this part shall not apply
to any Stat. (as defined in section 1101 of the Social Security Act for purposes of title I thereof) for any fiscal year for which there is in effect an election by it not to have the amendments made by such section apply to it. Any such election shall be in effect for a fiscal year only if notice of the election has been filed with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare at some time prior to May 16 of the preceding fiscal year, except that any such election shall be in effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1957, if notice of the election is filed with the Secretary prior to August 1, 1957. An election by a Stat. under this subsection shall continue in effect until the close of any fiscal year designated in a notice of termination of such election which is filed with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare prior to May 16 of such year. Elections hereunder shall be made, and notices thereof and notices of termination shall be filed, on such form or forms and in such manner as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe.”
Approved July 17, 1957.