42 U.S.C. § 300x–27: Treatment services for…

§300x–27 Treatment Services for Pregnant Women

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER XVII — BLOCK GRANTS › Part B — Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use › subpart ii — block grants for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services › § 300x–27

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

States that get the grant must give pregnant women who seek or are sent for treatment and who would benefit from it first priority for spots at treatment centers paid with the grant. The State must also tell people these services exist and that pregnant women get this priority. If a center can’t take a pregnant woman, the center must send her case to the State. The State must then send her to a center that can take her or, if none can, provide temporary services within 48 hours after she asks for help.

Title 42, §300x–27

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(a)In general

A funding agreement for a grant under section 300x–21 of this title is that the State involved—

(1)will ensure that each pregnant woman in the State who seeks or is referred for and would benefit from such services is given preference in admissions to treatment facilities receiving funds pursuant to the grant; and

(2)will, in carrying out paragraph (1), publicize the availability to such women of services from the facilities and the fact that the women receive such preference.

(b)Referrals regarding States

A funding agreement for a grant under section 300x–21 of this title is that, in carrying out subsection (a)(1)—

(1)the State involved will require that, in the event that a treatment facility has insufficient capacity to provide treatment services to any woman described in such subsection who seeks the services from the facility, the facility refer the woman to the State; and

(2)the State, in the case of each woman for whom a referral under paragraph (1) is made to the State—

(A)will refer the woman to a treatment facility that has the capacity to provide treatment services to the woman; or

(B)will, if no treatment facility has the capacity to admit the woman, make interim services available to the woman not later than 48 hours after the women seeks the treatment services.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1927 of act

July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300x–12 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–321. Another prior section 1927 of act

July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300y–6 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–280.

Amendments

1992—Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 102–352 struck out “available” before “interim services available”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 102–352 effective immediately upon effectuation of amendment made by Pub. L. 102–321, see section 3(1) of Pub. L. 102–352, set out as a note under section 285n of this title.