Authorizing Legislation

Attachment 1:

AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION

-CITE42 USC Sec. 300u-2
(111-383)

01/07/2011

-EXPCITETITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XV - HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
-HEADSec. 300u-2. Grants and contracts for community health programs
-STATUTE(a) Authority of Secretary; particular activities
The Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or
contract (and encourage others to support) new and innovative
programs in health information and health promotion, preventive
health services, and education in the appropriate use of health
care, and may specifically (1) support demonstration and training programs in such matters
which programs (A) are in hospitals, ambulatory care settings,
home care settings, schools, day care programs for children, and
other appropriate settings representative of broad cross sections
of the population, and include public education activities of
voluntary health agencies, professional medical societies, and
other private nonprofit health organizations, (B) focus on
objectives that are measurable, and (C) emphasize the prevention
or moderation of illness or accidents that appear controllable
through individual knowledge and behavior;
(2) provide consultation and technical assistance to
organizations that request help in planning, operating, or
evaluating programs in such matters;
(3) develop health information and health promotion materials
and teaching programs including (A) model curriculums for the
training of educational and health professionals and
paraprofessionals in health education by medical, dental, and
nursing schools, schools of public health, and other institutions
engaged in training of educational or health professionals, (B)
model curriculums to be used in elementary and secondary schools
and institutions of higher learning, (C) materials and programs
for the continuing education of health professionals and
paraprofessionals in the health education of their patients, (D)
materials for public service use by the printed and broadcast
media, and (E) materials and programs to assist providers of
health care in providing health education to their patients; and
(4) support demonstration and evaluation programs for
individual and group self-help programs designed to assist the
participant in using his individual capacities to deal with
health problems, including programs concerned with obesity,
hypertension, and diabetes.
(b) Grants to States and other public and nonprofit private
entities; costs of demonstrating and evaluating programs;
development of models
The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and other
public and nonprofit private entities to assist them in meeting the
costs of demonstrating and evaluating programs which provide
information respecting the costs and quality of health care or

information respecting health insurance policies and prepaid health
plans, or information respecting both. After the development of
models pursuant to section 300u-3(4) and 300u-3(5) of this title
for such information, no grant may be made under this subsection
for a program unless the information to be provided under the
program is provided in accordance with one of such models
applicable to the information.
(c) Private nonprofit entities; limitation on amount of grant or
contract
The Secretary is authorized to support by grant or contract (and
to encourage others to support) private nonprofit entities working
in health information and health promotion, preventive health
services, and education in the appropriate use of health care. The
amount of any grant or contract for a fiscal year beginning after
September 30, 1978, for an entity may not exceed 25 per centum of
the expenses of the entity for such fiscal year for health
information and health promotion, preventive health services, and
education in the appropriate use of health care.
-SOURCE(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, Sec. 1703, as added Pub. L. 94317, title I, Sec. 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 697.)
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42 USC Sec. 300u-3
383)

01/07/2011 (111-

-EXPCITETITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER XV - HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
-HEADSec. 300u-3. Grants and contracts for information programs;
authority of Secretary; particular activities
-STATUTEThe Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or
contract (and encourage others to support) such activities as may
be required to make information respecting health information and
health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the
appropriate use of health care available to the consumers of
medical care, providers of such care, schools, and others who are
or should be informed respecting such matters. Such activities may
include at least the following:
(1) The publication of information, pamphlets, and other
reports which are specially suited to interest and instruct the
health consumer, which information, pamphlets, and other reports
shall be updated annually, shall pertain to the individual's
ability to improve and safeguard his own health; shall include
material, accompanied by suitable illustrations, on child care,
family life and human development, disease prevention
(particularly prevention of pulmonary disease, cardiovascular
disease, and cancer), physical fitness, dental health,
environmental health, nutrition, safety and accident prevention,

drug abuse and alcoholism, mental health, management of chronic
diseases (including diabetes and arthritis), and venereal
diseases; and shall be designed to reach populations of different
languages and of different social and economic backgrounds.
(2) Securing the cooperation of the communications media,
providers of health care, schools, and others in activities
designed to promote and encourage the use of health maintaining
information and behavior.
(3) The study of health information and promotion in
advertising and the making to concerned Federal agencies and
others such recommendations respecting such advertising as are
appropriate.
(4) The development of models and standards for the publication
by States, insurance carriers, prepaid health plans, and others
(except individual health practitioners) of information for use
by the public respecting the cost and quality of health care,
including information to enable the public to make comparisons of
the cost and quality of health care.
(5) The development of models and standards for the publication
by States, insurance carriers, prepaid health plans, and others
of information for use by the public respecting health insurance
policies and prepaid health plans, including information on the
benefits provided by the various types of such policies and
plans, the premium charges for such policies and plans,
exclusions from coverage or eligibility for coverage, cost
sharing requirements, and the ratio of the amounts paid as
benefits to the amounts received as premiums and information to
enable the public to make relevant comparisons of the costs and
benefits of such policies and plans.
-SOURCE(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, Sec. 1704, as added Pub. L. 94317, title I, Sec. 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 698; amended Pub.
L. 98-551, Sec. 2(b), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.)
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AMENDMENTS
1984 - Par. (6). Pub. L. 98-551 struck out par. (6) which
provided grant authority to the Secretary to assess, with respect
to the effectiveness, safety, cost, and required training for and
conditions of use, of new aspects of health care, and new
activities, programs, and services designed to improve human health
and publish in readily understandable language for public and
professional use such assessments and, in the case of controversial
aspects of health care, activities, programs, or services, publish
differing views or opinions respecting the effectiveness, safety,
cost, and required training for and conditions of use, of such
aspects of health care, activities, programs, or services.

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