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§300d–43 Certain Agreements
Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER X — TRAUMA CARE › Part D — Trauma Centers Operating in Areas Severely Affected by Drug-Related Violence › § 300d–43
Summary
The Secretary may require grant-funded trauma centers to keep trauma services at roughly last year’s level during the grant and to send case data to a national registry using American College of Surgeons guidelines.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §300d–43
The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)Maintenance of financial support
The Secretary may require a trauma center receiving a grant under section 300d–41(a) of this title to maintain access to trauma services at comparable levels to the prior year during the grant period.
(b)Trauma care registry
The Secretary may require the trauma center receiving a grant under section 300d–41(a) of this title to provide data to a national and centralized registry of trauma cases, in accordance with guidelines developed by the American College of Surgeons, and as the Secretary may otherwise require.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2010—Pub. L. 111–148 added subsecs. (a) and (b) and struck out former subsecs. (a) to (c) which related to commitment regarding continued participation in trauma care system, maintenance of financial support, and trauma care registry.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective July 10, 1992, with programs making awards providing financial assistance in fiscal year 1993 and subsequent years effective for awards made on or after Oct. 1, 1992, see section 801(b), (d)(1) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as an
Effective Date
of 1992 Amendment note under section 236 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
42 U.S.C. § 300d–43
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110