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§300s General Regulations

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER XIV — HEALTH RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT › Part C — General Provisions › § 300s

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must make rules for choosing which projects under part A or B get help. The rules must rank projects by how much different areas need them and give extra priority to projects that serve low-money or rural areas; to modernization projects in crowded areas; to new outpatient centers in rural or urban-poverty areas; to projects that fix urgent safety hazards or prevent license or accreditation problems; and to facilities that offer full care (outpatient, preventive, and hospital services). The Secretary also must set general construction, modernization, and equipment standards that can differ by facility type and location. The Secretary must also set how anyone who gets money under part A or B (or who got money under part A, B, or subchapter IV) must keep the promises they made when they received the funds and how they must prove it. Those recipients must regularly send data to the Secretary to show compliance, and the Secretary cannot waive that reporting requirement.

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Title 42, §300s

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The Secretary shall by regulation—
(1)prescribe the manner in which he shall determine the priority among projects for which assistance is available under part A or B, based on the relative need of different areas for such projects and giving special consideration—
(A)to projects for medical facilities serving areas with relatively small financial resources and for medical facilities serving rural communities,
(B)in the case of projects for modernization of medical facilities, to projects for facilities serving densely populated areas,
(C)in the case of projects for construction of outpatient medical facilities, to projects that will be located in, and provide services for residents of, areas determined by the Secretary to be rural or urban poverty areas,
(D)to projects designed to (i) eliminate or prevent imminent safety hazards as defined by Federal, State, or local fire, building, or life safety codes or regulations, or (ii) avoid noncompliance with State or voluntary licensure or accreditation standards, and
(E)to projects for medical facilities which, alone or in conjunction with other facilities, will provide comprehensive health care, including outpatient and preventive care as well as hospitalization;
(2)prescribe for medical facilities projects assisted under part A or B general standards of construction, modernization, and equipment, which standards may vary on the basis of the class of facilities and their location; and
(3)prescribe the general manner in which each entity which receives financial assistance under part A or B or has received financial assistance under part A or B or subchapter IV shall be required to comply with the assurances required to be made at the time such assistance was received and the means by which such entity shall be required to demonstrate compliance with such assurances.
An entity subject to the requirements prescribed pursuant to paragraph (3) respecting compliance with assurances made in connection with receipt of financial assistance shall submit periodically to the Secretary data and information which reasonably supports the entity’s compliance with such assurances. The Secretary may not waive the requirement of the preceding sentence.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 300s, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVI, § 1630, as added Jan. 4, 1975, Pub. L. 93–641, § 4, 88 Stat. 2269, provided for judicial review by the United States Court of Appeals, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–79, § 202(b), eff. Oct. 1, 1979. A prior section 1620 of act
July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 1601 by Pub. L. 96–79, title II, § 203(a)(1), Oct. 4, 1979, 93 Stat. 635, and is classified to section 300q of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 204 of Pub. L. 96–79, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1979 Amendment note under section 300q of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300s

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110