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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300s–6 Enforcement of assurances

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XIV— - HEALTH RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Part Part C— - General Provisions › § 300s–6

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must regularly check whether any organization that gets federal health money under this part or under subchapter IV is keeping the promises it made when it got the money. If an organization is not keeping those promises, the Secretary must tell the local health systems agency and the State health planning and development agency and must use legal means to make the organization comply, including asking the Attorney General to go to court. Another person can only sue to force compliance after they file a complaint with the Secretary and the Secretary dismisses it or the Attorney General has not started a civil action within six months of that filing.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300s–6

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary shall investigate and ascertain, on a periodic basis, with respect to each entity which is receiving financial assistance under this subchapter or which has received financial assistance under subchapter IV or this subchapter, the extent of compliance by such entity with the assurances required to be made at the time such assistance was received. If the Secretary finds that such an entity has failed to comply with any such assurance, the Secretary shall report such noncompliance to the health systems agency for the health service area in which such entity is located and the State health planning and development agency of the State in which the entity is located and shall take any action authorized by law (including an action for specific performance brought by the Attorney General upon request of the Secretary) which will effect compliance by the entity with such assurances. An action to effectuate compliance with any such assurance may be brought by a person other than the Secretary only if a complaint has been filed by such person with the Secretary and the Secretary has dismissed such complaint or the Attorney General has not brought a civil action for compliance with such assurance within six months after the date on which the complaint was filed with the Secretary.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 204 of Pub. L. 96–79, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1979 Amendment note under section 300q of this title.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300s–6

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73