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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§280b–1b Use of allotments for rape prevention education

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part Part J— - Prevention and Control of Injuries › § 280b–1b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Health Secretary, through the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, must give targeted grants to states. States must use the money for rape prevention and education work done by rape crisis centers, sexual assault coalitions, and other nonprofit groups. Allowed uses include workshops and seminars, hotlines and other communications, training for professionals (including school staff) to spot and refer students at risk, creating information materials, college campus programs, teaching about drugs or alcohol used to facilitate assaults, and other prevention and awareness activities—especially outreach to underserved communities, people with disabilities, and Deaf people. The CDC’s National Resource Center on Sexual Assault must provide information, training, policy help, and technical support, and keep a central library of data and materials. Grant rules must let sexual assault coalitions, culturally specific groups, and representatives of underserved communities help shape applications and run programs. Congress authorized $100,000,000 for each fiscal year 2023 through 2027. At least $1,500,000 each year must go to the Resource Center. Each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico must get at least $150,000 each year; each Territory must get at least $35,000. At least 80% of funds must follow those minimums and population-based allotments. At least 15% of the yearly total must go to State, territorial, and Tribal coalitions; at least 10% of that coalition money must go to Tribal coalitions, with the rest split equally among State and territorial coalitions. Funds must add to, not replace, other public funds. States may spend no more than 2% on surveillance or prevalence studies and no more than 5% on administration each year. Within one year after March 15, 2022, the Secretary must report to House and Senate appropriations, commerce/HELP, and judiciary committees on grant activities and best practices.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §280b–1b

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award targeted grants to States to be used for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers, State, territorial or tribal sexual assault coalitions, and other public and private nonprofit entities for—
(1)educational seminars;
(2)the operation of hotlines or utilization of other communication technologies for purposes related to such a hotline;
(3)training programs for professionals, including school-based professionals, to identify and refer students who may have experienced or are at risk of experiencing sexual violence;
(4)the preparation of informational material;
(5)education and training programs for students and campus personnel designed to reduce the incidence of sexual assault at colleges and universities;
(6)education to increase awareness about drugs and alcohol used to facilitate rapes or sexual assaults; and
(7)other efforts to increase awareness of the facts about, or to help prevent, sexual violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including efforts to increase awareness in underserved communities and awareness among individuals with disabilities (as defined in section 12102 of this title) and Deaf individuals.
(b)The Secretary shall, through the National Resource Center on Sexual Assault established under the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provide resource information, policy, training, and technical assistance to Federal, State, local, and Indian Tribal agencies, as well as to State sexual assault coalitions and local sexual assault programs and to other professionals and interested parties on issues relating to sexual assault, including maintenance of a central resource library in order to collect, prepare, analyze, and disseminate information and statistics and analyses thereof relating to the incidence and prevention of sexual assault.
(c)In awarding funds to States under this section, the Secretary shall set forth procedures designed to ensure meaningful involvement of sexual assault coalitions, culturally specific organizations, and representatives from underserved communities of the State or territory in the application for, and implementation of, funding.
(d)(1)There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
(2)Of the total amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year, not less than $1,500,000 shall be available for allotment under subsection (b).
(3)A minimum allocation of $150,000 shall be awarded in each fiscal year for each of the States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. A minimum allocation of $35,000 shall be awarded in each fiscal year for each Territory. Any unused or remaining funds shall be allotted to each State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico on the basis of population. Not less than 80 percent of the total amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year shall be awarded in accordance with this paragraph.
(4)(A)Of the total amount appropriated under this subsection for a fiscal year, not less than 15 percent shall be allocated to State, territorial, and Tribal sexual assault coalitions for the purposes of coordinating and providing prevention activities, providing assistance to prevention programs, and collaborating and coordinating with applicable Federal, State, Tribal, and local entities engaged in sexual violence prevention, in accordance with this paragraph.
(B)Of the total amount appropriated under this subsection and allocated to making awards to sexual assault coalitions, as described in subparagraph (A), for a fiscal year—
(i)not less than 10 percent shall be made available to Tribal sexual assault coalitions; and
(ii)any remaining amounts shall be made available, in equal amounts, to each State coalition and each territorial coalition.
(C)Receipt of an award under this subsection by a sexual assault coalition shall not preclude the coalition from receiving additional grants or administering funds to carry out the purposes described in subsection (a).
(e)(1)Amounts provided to States under this section shall be used to supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, and local public funds expended to provide services of the type described in subsection (a).
(2)A State may not use more than 2 percent of the amount received by the State under this section for each fiscal year for surveillance studies or prevalence studies.
(3)A State may not use more than 5 percent of the amount received by the State under this section for each fiscal year for administrative expenses.
(f)Not later than 1 year after March 15, 2022, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the activities funded by grants awarded under this section and best practices relating to rape prevention and education.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 280b–1c of this title. Pub. L. 110–206, which directed the renumbering of “the section 393B (42 U.S.C. 280b–1c)” of act July 1, 1944, “relating to the use of allotments for rape prevention education” as section 393A and the transfer of that section so as to appear after section 393 of that Act, was executed by renumbering section 393C of that Act as 393A and transferring the renumbered provisions to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the renumbering of section 393B as 393C by section 2(1) of Pub. L. 110–202.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 393A of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 393B and is classified to section 280b–1c of this title.

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(1)(A), inserted before semicolon at end “or utilization of other communication technologies for purposes related to such a hotline”. Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(1)(B), substituted “professionals, including school-based professionals, to identify and refer students who may have experienced or are at risk of experiencing sexual violence” for “professionals”. Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(1)(C), substituted “sexual violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment” for “sexual assault” and inserted “and Deaf individuals” before period at end. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(2), substituted “Indian Tribal” for “Indian tribal”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(4), added subsec. (c). Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(3), redesignated subsec. (c) as (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (e). Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(5)(A), substituted “$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027” for “$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018”. Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(5)(B), inserted at end “Not less than 80 percent of the total amount made available under this subsection in each fiscal year shall be awarded in accordance with this paragraph.” Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(5)(C), added par. (4). Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(3), redesignated subsec. (d) as (e). Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 117–103, § 301(6), added subsec. (f). 2013—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–4, § 301(1)(A), inserted “, territorial or tribal” after “crisis centers, State” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 113–4, § 301(1)(B), inserted “and alcohol” after “about drugs”. Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 113–4, § 301(2)(A), substituted “$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018” for “$80,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011”. Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 113–4, § 301(2)(B), added par. (3). 2006—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–162 reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text contained provisions in par. (1) authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 2001 through 2005 and in par. (2) directing an allotment under subsec. (b) of this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2022 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 117–103 not effective until Oct. 1 of the first fiscal year beginning after Mar. 15, 2022, see section 4(a) of div. W of Pub. L. 117–103, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 6851 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.

Effective Date

of 2013 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 113–4 not effective until the beginning of the fiscal year following Mar. 7, 2013, see section 4 of Pub. L. 113–4, set out as a note under section 2261 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 280b–1b

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73