§300x–1 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

§300x–1 State plan for comprehensive community mental health services for certain individuals

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XVII— - BLOCK GRANTS › Part Part B— - Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use › Subpart subpart i— - block grants for community mental health services › § 300x–1

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may only give a State a grant if the State sends a plan every two years, the plan meets the required rules, and the Secretary approves it. The plan must name one State agency to run the program and describe an organized, community-based system of care for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance. It must explain how the State will coordinate a wide range of services (health, substance use, housing, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, law enforcement, employment, rehabilitation, legal, medical and dental, and other supports), promote evidence-based and integrated care, describe case management and how people and families help make care decisions, and say how grant money will be used to reduce hospital stays, prevent suicides, integrate mental and primary care, and support recovery. The plan also must estimate how common these problems are in the State, set targets and outcome measures, show an integrated service system for children (including services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), describe outreach to people who are homeless and to rural areas, list available funding and workforce (including staff trained for co-occurring mental and substance use disorders), describe training for emergency responders, and say how the State will spend the grant and meet any funding agreements. The plan must include goals, targets, and the steps to reach them. The Secretary must define the terms “adults with a serious mental illness” and “children with a serious emotional disturbance” and give those definitions to States, and must set standard methods for the State estimates. Those definitions and methods had to be established and shared within 90 days after July 10, 1992. When awarding grants, the Secretary checks how much of the plan the State has put into action. If a State has not fully implemented its plan, the Secretary must cut that State’s grant by 10% for the fiscal year. For fiscal year 1993, if the State had not substantially implemented the plan, the Secretary could cut the grant by 10%, but if the State showed a good faith effort the cut could be smaller, but not less than 5%.

Title 42, §300x–1

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(a)The Secretary may make a grant under section 300x of this title only if—

(1)the State involved submits to the Secretary a plan for providing comprehensive community mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance;

(2)the plan meets the criteria specified in subsection (b); and

(3)the plan is approved by the Secretary.

(b)In accordance with subsection (a), a State shall submit to the Secretary a plan every two years that, at a minimum, includes each of the following:

(1)A description of the State’s system of care that contains the following:

(A)The plan shall—

(i)identify the single State agency to be responsible for the administration of the program under the grant, including any third party who administers mental health services and is responsible for complying with the requirements of this part with respect to the grant;

(ii)provide for an organized community-based system of care for individuals with mental illness, and describe available services and resources in a comprehensive system of care, including services for individuals with co-occurring disorders;

(iii)include a description of the manner in which the State and local entities will coordinate services to maximize the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of services and programs to produce the best possible outcomes (including health services, rehabilitation services, employment services, housing services, educational services, substance use disorder services, legal services, law enforcement services, social services, child welfare services, medical and dental care services, and other support services to be provided with Federal, State, and local public and private resources) with other agencies to enable individuals receiving services to function outside of inpatient or residential institutions, to the maximum extent of their capabilities, including services to be provided by local school systems under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.];

(iv)include a description of how the State promotes evidence-based practices, including those evidence-based programs that address the needs of individuals with early serious mental illness regardless of the age of the individual at onset, provide comprehensive individualized treatment, or integrate mental and physical health services;

(v)include a description of case management services;

(vi)include a description of activities that seek to engage adults with a serious mental illness or children with a serious emotional disturbance and their caregivers where appropriate in making health care decisions, including activities that enhance communication among individuals, families, caregivers, and treatment providers; and

(vii)as appropriate to, and reflective of, the uses the State proposes for the block grant funds, include—

(I)a description of the activities intended to reduce hospitalizations and hospital stays using the block grant funds;

(II)a description of the activities intended to reduce incidents of suicide using the block grant funds;

(III)a description of how the State integrates mental health and primary care using the block grant funds, which may include providing, in the case of individuals with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, both mental and substance use disorders services in primary care settings or arrangements to provide primary and specialty care services in community-based mental and substance use disorders settings; and

(IV)a description of recovery and recovery support services for adults with a serious mental illness and children with a serious emotional disturbance.

(B)The plan shall contain an estimate of the incidence and prevalence in the State of serious mental illness among adults and serious emotional disturbance among children and present quantitative targets and outcome measures for programs and services provided under this subpart.

(C)In the case of children with a serious emotional disturbance (as defined pursuant to subsection (c)), the plan shall provide for a system of integrated social services, educational services, child welfare services, juvenile justice services, law enforcement services, and substance use disorder services that, together with health and mental health services, will be provided in order for such children to receive care appropriate for their multiple needs (such system to include services provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

(D)The plan shall describe the State’s outreach to and services for individuals who are homeless and how community-based services will be provided to individuals residing in rural areas.

(E)The plan shall describe the financial resources available, the existing mental health workforce, and the workforce trained in treating individuals with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, and shall provide for the training of providers of emergency health services regarding mental health. The plan shall further describe the manner in which the State intends to expend the grant under section 300x of this title for the fiscal year involved, and the manner in which the State intends to comply with each of the funding agreements in this subpart and subpart III.

(2)The establishment of goals and objectives for the period of the plan, including targets and milestones that are intended to be met, and the activities that will be undertaken to achieve those targets.

(c)(1)For purposes of this subpart, the Secretary shall establish definitions for the terms “adults with a serious mental illness” and “children with a serious emotional disturbance”. The Secretary shall disseminate the definitions to the States.

(2)The Secretary shall establish standardized methods for making the estimates required in subsection (b)(11) 11 See References in Text note below. with respect to a State. A funding agreement for a grant under section 300x of this title for the State is that the State will utilize such methods in making the estimates.

(3)Not later than 90 days after July 10, 1992, the Secretary shall establish the definitions described in paragraph (1), shall begin dissemination of the definitions to the States, and shall establish the standardized methods described in paragraph (2).

(d)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), in making a grant under section 300x of this title to a State for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall make a determination of the extent to which the State has implemented the plan required in subsection (a). If the Secretary determines that a State has not completely implemented the plan, the Secretary shall reduce the amount of the allotment under section 300x of this title for the State for the fiscal year involved by an amount equal to 10 percent of the amount determined under section 300x–7 of this title for the State for the fiscal year.

(2)(A)In making a grant under section 300x of this title to a State for fiscal year 1993, the Secretary shall make a determination of the extent to which the State has implemented the plan required in subsection (a). If the Secretary determines that the State has not substantially implemented the plan, the Secretary shall, subject to subparagraph (B), reduce the amount of the allotment under section 300x of this title for the State for such fiscal year by an amount equal to 10 percent of the amount determined under section 300x–7 of this title for the State for the fiscal year.

(B)In carrying out subparagraph (A), if the Secretary determines that the State is making a good faith effort to implement the plan required in subsection (a), the Secretary may make a reduction under such subparagraph in an amount that is less than the amount specified in such subparagraph, except that the reduction may not be made in an amount that is less than 5 percent of the amount determined under section 300x–7 of this title for the State for fiscal year 1993.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(A)(iii), (C), is title VI of Pub. L. 91–230, Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 175, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1400 et seq.) of Title 20, Education. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1400 of Title 20 and Tables. Subsection (b)(11), referred to in subsec. (c)(2), was repealed by Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXII, § 3204(a), Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1192. Provisions relating to estimates formerly contained in subsec. (b)(11) are now contained in subsec. (b)(1)(B) of this section.

Prior Provisions

Prior sections 300x–1 to 300x–1b were repealed by Pub. L. 102–321, title II, § 201(2),

July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 378. section 300x–1, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1912, as added Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98–509, title I, § 102(a), 98 Stat. 2353, authorized grants for training of employees adversely affected by changes in delivery of mental health services and for providing assistance in securing employment. Another prior section 300x–1, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1912, as added Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 901, 95 Stat. 543; amended Jan. 4, 1983, Pub. L. 97–414, § 8(t), 96 Stat. 2062; Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98–509, title I, § 106(e), 98 Stat. 2358, contained provisions relating to grants and allotment of grants for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services, prior to repeal by section 102(a) of Pub. L. 98–509. section 300x–1a, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1912A, as added and amended Nov. 18, 1988, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, §§ 2022(a)–(c), 2023, 102 Stat. 4194, 4196, 4197; Aug. 16, 1989, Pub. L. 101–93, § 2(a), 103 Stat. 603, related to allotments of grants for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services. Another prior section 300x–1a, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1913, as added Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98–509, title I, § 102(a), 98 Stat. 2353, was transferred to section 300x–1b of this title. section 300x–1b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1913, as added Oct. 19, 1984, Pub. L. 98–509, title I, § 102(a), 98 Stat. 2353; amended Nov. 18, 1988, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2022(d), 102 Stat. 4197; Aug. 16, 1989, Pub. L. 101–93, § 2(b), 103 Stat. 605, related to allotments to States and Indian tribes or tribal organizations for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services.

Amendments

2016—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(3), (10), substituted, in introductory provisions, “In accordance with subsection (a), a State shall submit to the Secretary a plan every two years that, at a minimum, includes each of the following:” for “With respect to the provision of comprehensive community mental health services to individuals who are either adults with a serious mental illness or children with a serious emotional disturbance, the criteria referred to in subsection (a) regarding a plan are as follows:” and struck out concluding provisions which read as follows: “Except as provided for in paragraph (3), the State plan shall contain the information required under this subsection with respect to both adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance.” Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(4), inserted par. (1) designation, heading, and introductory provisions. Former par. (1) redesignated subpar. (A) of par. (1). Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(5), added subpar. (A) and struck out former subpar. (A) which related to comprehensive community-based mental health systems. Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated par. (1) as subpar. (A) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(6), substituted “The plan shall contain” for “The plan contains” and “present quantitative targets and outcome measures for programs and services provided under this subpart” for “presents quantitative targets to be achieved in the implementation of the system described in paragraph (1)”. Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated par. (2) as subpar. (B) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Subsec. (b)(1)(C). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(7), substituted “a serious emotional disturbance (as defined pursuant to subsection (c)), the plan shall provide for a system of integrated social services, educational services, child welfare services, juvenile justice services, law

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services, and substance use disorder services” for “serious emotional disturbance, the plan—(i) subject to subparagraph (B), provides for a system of integrated social services, educational services, juvenile services, and substance abuse services” and “Education Act).” for “Education Act);” and struck out cls. (ii) and (iii), which related to use of grants under section 300x of this title and to establishment of a defined geographic area for the provision of the services, respectively. Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated par. (3) as subpar. (C) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(1), redesignated subpars. (A) to (C) of par. (3) as cls. (i) to (iii) of subpar. (C) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Subsec. (b)(1)(D). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(8), substituted “plan shall describe” for “plan describes”. Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated par. (4) as subpar. (D) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Subsec. (b)(1)(E). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(9), in heading substituted “services” for “systems”, in first sentence substituted, “plan shall describe the financial resources available, the existing mental health workforce, and the workforce trained in treating individuals with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders, and shall provide for” for “plan describes the financial resources, staffing and training for mental health providers that is necessary to implement the plan, and provides for”, and in second sentence substituted, “shall further describe” for “further describes” and “involved, and the manner in which the State intends to comply with each of the funding agreements in this subpart and subpart III.” for “involved.” Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated par. (5) as subpar. (E) of par. (1) and realigned margins. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(11), added par. (2). Former par. (2) redesignated subpar. (B) of par. (1). Subsec. (b)(3) to (5). Pub. L. 114–255, § 8001(b)(2), redesignated pars. (3) to (5) as subpars. (C) to (E), respectively, of par. (1). 2000—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–310 added pars. (1) to (5) and concluding provisions and struck out former pars. (1) to (12) relating to criteria for plan.