PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Grants or contracts under this program can pay to create and support training programs and faculty, run model demonstrations, help trainees (including tuition, books, program fees, and reasonable living costs during training), provide technical help, study the nursing workforce, and share information to meet recognized nursing goals under the program rules. Recipients must keep spending nonfederal money on those activities at least at the same level as in the fiscal year before the year they get the grant. Federal funds must add to, not replace, existing nonfederal spending.

Title 42, §296b

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

(a)In general

Amounts provided under a grant or contract awarded under this subchapter may be used for training program development and support, faculty development, model demonstrations, trainee support including tuition, books, program fees and reasonable living expenses during the period of training, technical assistance, workforce analysis, and dissemination of information, as appropriate to meet recognized nursing objectives, in accordance with this subchapter.

(b)Maintenance of effort

With respect to activities for which a grant awarded under this subchapter is to be expended, the entity shall agree to maintain expenditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at a level that is not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by the entity for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the entity receives such a grant. Such Federal funds are intended to supplement, not supplant, existing non-Federal expenditures for such activities.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 296b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 803, as added Sept. 4, 1964, Pub. L. 88–581, § 2, 78 Stat. 911; amended Aug. 16, 1968, Pub. L. 90–490, title II, § 202, 82 Stat. 780; Nov. 18, 1971, Pub. L. 92–158, §§ 2(b), 13, 85 Stat. 465, 480;

July 29, 1975, Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 941(b), 89 Stat. 364, set forth provisions relating to amount of

Construction

grant, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–92, §§ 9(a)(1), 10(a), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 400, 402, effective Oct. 1, 1985.

Amendments

2020—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116–136 inserted at end “Such Federal funds are intended to supplement, not supplant, existing non-Federal expenditures for such activities.”

§296b Use of Funds