42 U.S.C. § 300ff–19: Establishment of program

Summary

The Secretary, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, must give grants to pay for the HIV services described elsewhere in law in places called "transitional areas." A transitional area is a metro area that has had at least 1,000 but fewer than 2,000 reported and confirmed AIDS cases over the most recent 5-year period for which data exist. For fiscal year 2011, a metro area that got main program funding in 2010 but not in 2011 can still count as a transitional area. A metro area stays a transitional area until it fails for three straight fiscal years both to meet the transitional definition and to have 1,500 or more living AIDS cases as of December 31 of the latest year with data. For years after 2008, an area with 1,400–1,499 living cases can still count if no more than 5% of its grant money is left unobligated at the end of the most recent fiscal year. These rules do not apply if the area qualifies instead as an eligible area under the main program. Most rules that apply to eligible areas also apply to transitional areas — about planning councils, grant formulas, applications, technical help, and definitions — with a few specific exceptions. The local chief elected official may skip one planning requirement if they document how they got community input, except in areas that got main program funding in 2006 (for which that exception does not apply for fiscal years 2007–2013).

Title 42, §300ff–19

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(a)In general

The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall make grants for the purpose of providing services described in section 300ff–14 of this title in transitional areas, subject to the same provisions regarding the allocation of grant funds as apply under subsection (c) of such section.

(b)Transitional areas

For purposes of this section, the term “transitional area” means, subject to subsection (c), a metropolitan area for which there has been reported to and confirmed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a cumulative total of at least 1,000, but fewer than 2,000, cases of AIDS during the most recent period of 5 calendar years for which such data are available.

(c)Certain eligibility rules

(1)Fiscal year 2011

With respect to grants under subsection (a) for fiscal year 2011, a metropolitan area that received funding under subpart I for fiscal year 2010 but does not for fiscal year 2011 qualify under such subpart as an eligible area and does not qualify under subsection (b) as a transitional area shall, notwithstanding subsection (b), be considered a transitional area.

(2)Continued status as transitional area

(A)In general

Notwithstanding subsection (b), a metropolitan area that is a transitional area for a fiscal year continues, except as provided in subparagraph (B), to be a transitional area until the metropolitan area fails, for three consecutive fiscal years—

(i)to qualify under such subsection as a transitional area; and

(ii)subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), to have a cumulative total of 1,500 or more living cases of AIDS (reported to and confirmed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) as of December 31 of the most recent calendar year for which such data is available.

(B)Permitting margin of error applicable to certain metropolitan areas

In applying subparagraph (A)(ii) for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2008, in the case of a metropolitan area that has a cumulative total of at least 1,400 (and fewer than 1,500) living cases of AIDS as of December 31 of the most recent calendar year for which such data is available, such area shall be treated as having met the criteria of such subparagraph if not more than 5 percent of the total from grants awarded to such area under this part is unobligated as of the end of the most recent fiscal year for which such data is available.

(C)Exception regarding status as eligible area

Subparagraphs (A) and (B) do not apply for a fiscal year if the metropolitan area involved qualifies under subpart I as an eligible area.

(d)Application of certain provisions of subpart I

(1)Administration; planning council

(A)In general

The provisions of section 300ff–12 of this title apply with respect to a grant under subsection (a) for a transitional area to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply with respect to a grant under subpart I for an eligible area, except that, subject to subparagraph (B), the chief elected official of the transitional area may elect not to comply with the provisions of section 300ff–12(b) of this title if the official provides documentation to the Secretary that details the process used to obtain community input (particularly from those with HIV) in the transitional area for formulating the overall plan for priority setting and allocating funds from the grant under subsection (a).

(B)Exception

For each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2013, the exception described in subparagraph (A) does not apply if the transitional area involved received funding under subpart I for fiscal year 2006.

(2)Type and distribution of grants; timeframe for obligation and expenditure of grant funds

(A)Formula grants; supplemental grants

The provisions of section 300ff–13 of this title apply with respect to grants under subsection (a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply with respect to grants under subpart I, subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C).

(B)Formula grants; increase in grant

For purposes of subparagraph (A), section 300ff–13(a)(4) of this title does not apply.

(C)Supplemental grants; single program with subpart I program

With respect to section 300ff–13(b) of this title as applied for purposes of subparagraph (A):

(i)The Secretary shall combine amounts available pursuant to such subparagraph with amounts available for carrying out section 300ff–13(b) of this title and shall administer the two programs as a single program.

(ii)In the single program, the Secretary has discretion in allocating amounts between eligible areas under subpart I and transitional areas under this section, subject to the eligibility criteria that apply under such section, and subject to section 300ff–13(b)(2)(C) of this title (relating to priority in making grants).

(iii)Pursuant to section 300ff–13(b)(1) of this title, amounts for the single program are subject to use under section 300ff–13(a)(4) and 300ff–20(d)(1) of this title.

(3)Application; technical assistance; definitions

The provisions of section 300ff–15, 300ff–16, and 300ff–17 of this title apply with respect to grants under subsection (a) to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply with respect to grants under subpart I.

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), (3)(A), repealed Pub. L. 109–415, § 703, and revived the provisions of this section as in effect on Sept. 30, 2009. See 2006 Amendment note and

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section note below. Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 111–87, § 4(a)(1), in heading substituted “2011” for “2007” and in text substituted “2011” for “2007” in two places and “2010” for “2006”. Subsec. (c)(2)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 111–87, § 4(a)(2)(A), substituted “subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), to have a” for “to have a”. Subsec. (c)(2)(B). Pub. L. 111–87, § 4(a)(2)(B), (C), added subpar. (B). Former subpar. (B) redesignated (C). Subsec. (c)(2)(C). Pub. L. 111–87, § 4(a)(2)(B), (D), redesignated subpar. (B) as (C) and substituted “Subparagraphs (A) and (B) do not apply” for “Subparagraph (A) does not apply”. Subsec. (d)(1)(B). Pub. L. 111–87, § 4(a)(3), substituted “2013” for “2009”. 2006—Pub. L. 109–415, § 703, which directed repeal of this section effective Oct. 1, 2009, was itself repealed by Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), effective Sept. 30, 2009.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment; Revival of SectionFor provisions that repeal by section 2(a)(1) of Pub. L. 111–87 of section 703 of Pub. L. 109–415 be effective Sept. 30, 2009, that the provisions of this section as in effect on Sept. 30, 2009, be revived, and that amendment by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 111–87 be applicable to this section as so revived and effective as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2009, see section 2(a)(2), (3) of Pub. L. 111–87, set out as a note under section 300ff–11 of this title.

§300ff–19 Establishment of Program

Summary

Title 42, §300ff–19

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