42 U.S.C. § 300ee: Use of funds

Summary

Creates funded education and information programs to help stop people from getting and spreading what causes AIDS. These programs must tell people that having many sex partners and injecting drugs are harmful and that avoiding those behaviors helps. The money cannot be used to support or encourage any kind of sexual activity (gay or straight) or injecting drugs. Programs may still give accurate ways to lower risk, as long as the materials are not obscene.

Title 42, §300ee

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

(a)In general

The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the establishment of education and information programs to prevent and reduce exposure to, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

(b)Contents of programs

All programs of education and information receiving funds under this subchapter shall include information about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such activities.

(c)Limitation

None of the funds appropriated to carry out this subchapter may be used to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse.

(d)Construction

Subsection (c) may not be construed to restrict the ability of an education program that includes the information required in subsection (b) to provide accurate information about various means to reduce an individual’s risk of exposure to, or the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, provided that any informational materials used are not obscene.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–690 substituted “this subchapter” for “this part”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1988 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–690 effective immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–607, which was approved Nov. 4, 1988, see section 2600 of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.

§300ee Use of Funds