certain state plans not meeting income and resources requirements for the blind

certain state plans not meeting income and resources requirements for the blind Sec. 136. (a) Section 1002(b) of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof (after and below paragraph (2)) the following new sentence: “In the case of any State (other than Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) which did not have on January 1, 1949, a State plan for aid to the blind approved under this title, the Secretary shall approve a plan of such State for aid to the blind for purposes of this title, even though it does not meet the requirements of clause (8) of subsection (a) of this section, if it meets all other requirements of this title for an approved plan for aid to the blind; but payments under section 1003 shall be made, in the case of any such plan, only with respect to expenditures thereunder which would be included as expenditures for the purposes of section 1003 under a plan approved under this section without regard to the provisions of this sentence.” (b) Section 344 of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950 is repealed.