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42 U.S.C. § 247b–16 — Grants for lead poisoning related activities

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42 U.S.C. § 247b–16 — Grants for lead poisoning related activities

**(a) Authority to make grants** (1) **In general** — The Secretary shall make grants to States to support public health activities in States and localities where data suggests that at least 5 percent of preschool-age children have an elevated blood lead level through— (A) effective, ongoing outreach and community education targeted to families most likely to be at risk for lead poisoning; (B) individual family education activities that are designed to reduce ongoing exposures to lead for children with elevated blood lead levels, including through home visits and coordination with other programs designed to identify and treat children at risk for lead poisoning; and (C) the development, coordination and implementation of community-based approaches for comprehensive lead poisoning prevention from surveillance to lead hazard control. (2) **State match** — A State is not eligible for a grant under this section unless the State agrees to expend (through State or local funds) $1 for every $2 provided under the grant to carry out the activities described in paragraph (1). (3) **Application** — To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State shall submit an application to the Secretary in such form and manner and containing such information as the Secretary may require. **(b) Coordination with other children’s programs** A State shall identify in the application for a grant under this section how the State will coordinate operations and activities under the grant with— (1) other programs operated in the State that serve children with elevated blood lead levels, including any such programs operated under title V, XIX, or XXI of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section701&num

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**(a) Authority to make grants** (1) **In general** — The Secretary shall make grants to States to support public health activities in States and localities where data suggests that at least 5 percent of preschool-age children have an elevated blood lead level through— (A) effective, ongoing outreach and community education targeted to families most likely to be at risk for lead poisoning; (B) individual family education activities that are designed to reduce ongoing exposures to lead for children with elevated blood lead levels, including through home visits and coordination with other programs designed to identify and treat children at risk for lead poisoning; and (C) the development, coordination and implementation of community-based approaches for comprehensive lead poisoning prevention from surveillance to lead hazard control. (2) **State match** — A State is not eligible for a grant under this section unless the State agrees to expend (through State or local funds) $1 for every $2 provided under the grant to carry out the activities described in paragraph (1). (3) **Application** — To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a State shall submit an application to the Secretary in such form and manner and containing such information as the Secretary may require. **(b) Coordination with other children’s programs** A State shall identify in the application for a grant under this section how the State will coordinate operations and activities under the grant with— (1) other programs operated in the State that serve children with elevated blood lead levels, including any such programs operated under title V, XIX, or XXI of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq., 1396 et seq., 1397aa et seq.]; and (2) one or more of the following— (A) the child welfare and foster care and adoption assistance programs under parts B and E of title IV of such Act [[42 U.S.C. 620](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section620&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq., 670 et seq.]; (B) the head start program established under the Head Start Act ([42 U.S.C. 9831](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9831&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (C) the program of assistance under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) under [section 1786 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1786&num=0&edition=prelim); (D) local public and private elementary or secondary schools; or (E) public housing agencies, as defined in [section 1437a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1437a&num=0&edition=prelim). **(c) Performance measures** The Secretary shall establish needs indicators and performance measures to evaluate the activities carried out under grants awarded under this section. Such indicators shall be commensurate with national measures of maternal and child health programs and shall be developed in consultation with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. **(d) Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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42 U.S.C. § 701 — Authorization of appropriations; purposes; definitions

**(a)** To improve the health of all mothers and children consistent with the applicable health status goals and national health objectives established by the Secretary under the Public Health Service Act [[42 U.S.C. 201](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section201&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] for the year 2000, there are authorized to be appropriated $850,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and each fiscal year thereafter— (1) for the purpose of enabling each State— (A) to provide and to assure mothers and children (in particular those with low income or with limited availability of health services) access to quality maternal and child health services; (B) to reduce infant mortality and the incidence of preventable diseases and handicapping conditions among children, to reduce the incidence of stillbirth, to reduce the need for inpatient and long-term care services, to increase the number of children (especially preschool children) appropriately immunized against disease and the number of low income children receiving health assessments and follow-up diagnostic and treatment services, and otherwise to promote the health of mothers and infants by providing prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care for low income, at-risk pregnant women, and to promote the health of children by providing preventive and primary care services for low income children; (C) to provide rehabilitation services for blind and disabled individuals under the age of 16 receiving benefits under subchapter XVI, to the extent medical assistance for such services is not provided under subchapter XIX; and (D) to provide and to promote family-centered, community-based, coordinated care (including care coordination services, as defined in subsection (b)(3)) for chi

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42 U.S.C. § 9801 — Evaluation of programs; implementation and funding, etc.; research and demonstration projects; implementation and purposes

**(a)** Each program for which grants are made under this subchapter shall provide for a thorough evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in achieving its purposes, which evaluation shall be conducted by such public or private organizations as the Secretary in consultation with existing grantees familiar with programs carried out under the Community Services Block Grant Act [[42 U.S.C. 9901](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9901&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] may designate, and all or part of the costs of evaluation may be paid from funds appropriated to carry out this part. In evaluating the performance of any community development corporation funded under part A, the criteria for evaluation shall be based upon such program objectives, goals, and priorities as are consistent with the purposes of this subchapter and were set forth by such community development corporation in its proposal for funding as approved and agreed upon by or as subsequently modified from time to time by mutual agreement between the Secretary and such community development corporation. **(b)** The Secretary shall conduct, either directly or through grants or other arrangements, research and demonstration projects designed to suggest new programs and policies to achieve the purposes of this subchapter in such ways as to provide opportunities for employment, ownership, and a better quality of life for low-income residents.

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42 U.S.C. § 1786 — Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children

**(a) Congressional findings and declaration of purpose** Congress finds that substantial numbers of pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and young children from families with inadequate income are at special risk with respect to their physical and mental health by reason of inadequate nutrition or health care, or both. It is, therefore, the purpose of the program authorized by this section to provide, up to the authorization levels set forth in subsection (g) of this section, supplemental foods and nutrition education, including breastfeeding promotion and support, through any eligible local agency that applies for participation in the program. The program shall serve as an adjunct to good health care, during critical times of growth and development, to prevent the occurrence of health problems, including drug abuse, and improve the health status of these persons. **(b) Definitions** As used in this section— (1) “Breastfeeding women” means women up to one year postpartum who are breastfeeding their infants. (2) “Children” means persons who have had their first birthday but have not yet attained their fifth birthday. (3) “Competent professional authority” means physicians, nutritionists, registered nurses, dietitians, or State or local medically trained health officials, or persons designated by physicians or State or local medically trained health officials, in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary, as being competent professionally to evaluate nutritional risk. (4) “Costs of nutrition services and administration” or “nutrition services and administration” means costs that shall include, but not be limited to, costs for certification of eligibility of persons for participation in the program (including centrifuges, measuring boar

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42 U.S.C. § 9831 — Statement of purpose

It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote the school readiness of low-income children by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development— (1) in a learning environment that supports children’s growth in language, literacy, mathematics, science, social and emotional functioning, creative arts, physical skills, and approaches to learning; and (2) through the provision to low-income children and their families of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assessments, to be necessary.

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42 U.S.C. § 1437a — Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; right to sue; expenses

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may sue and be sued only with respect to its functions under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended [[42 U.S.C. 1437](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1437&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and title II of Public Law 671, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved June 28, 1940, as amended [[42 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]. Funds made available for carrying out the functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (including appropriations therefor, which are authorized) shall be available, in such amounts as may from year to year be authorized by the Congress, for the administrative expenses of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law except provisions of law enacted after August 10, 1948 expressly in limitation hereof, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or any State or local public agency administering a low-rent housing project assisted pursuant to the United States Housing Act of 1937 or title II of Public Law 671, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved June 28, 1940, shall continue to have the right to maintain an action or proceeding to recover possession of any housing accommodations operated by it where such action is authorized by the statute or regulations under which such housing accommodations are administered, and, in determining net income for the purposes of tenant eligibility with respect to low-rent housing projects assisted pursuant to said Acts, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is authorized, where it finds such action equitable and in the public interest, to exclude am

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42 U.S.C. § 620 — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–288, § 6(a), Sept. 28, 2006, 120 Stat. 1244

### Statutory Notes Section, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 420, as added Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 240(c), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 911; amended Pub. L. 92–603, title IV, § 412, Oct. 30, 1972, 86 Stat. 1492; Pub. L. 96–272, title I, § 103(a), June 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 516; Pub. L. 98–369, div. B, title VI, § 2663(c)(8), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1166; Pub. L. 101–239, title X, § 10401(a), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2487, authorized appropriations for child welfare services. See [section 625 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section625&num=0&edition=prelim). #### Effective Date of Repeal Repeal effective Oct. 1, 2006, and applicable to payments under this part and part E of this subchapter for calendar quarters beginning on or after such date, see section 12(a) of Pub. L. 109–288, set out as an Effective Date of 2006 Amendment note under [section 621 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section621&num=0&edition=prelim).

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42 U.S.C. § 1305 — Short title of chapter

This chapter may be cited as the “Social Security Act”.

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42 U.S.C. § 620 — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–288, § 6(a), Sept. 28,

Page 2209 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 621 (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 419, as added Pub. L. 104–193, title I, § 103(a)(2), Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2159.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE Par. (4) of this section effective Oct. 1, 1996, with re- mainder of section effective July 1, 1997, with transi- tion rules relating to State options to accelerate such date, rules relating to claims, actions, and proceedings commenced before such date, rules relating to closing out of accounts for terminated or substantially modi- fied programs and continuance in office of Assistant Secretary for Family Support, and provisions relating to termination of entitlement under AFDC program, see section 116 of Pub. L. 104–193, as amended, set out as a note under section 601 of this title. PART B—CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13711(a)(1), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 649, substituted ‘‘Child and Family Services’’ for ‘‘Child Welfare Services’’ in part B heading. Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 240(c), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 911, added part B heading. SUBPART 1—STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES CHILD WELFARE SERVICES PROGRAM Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 110–351, title I, § 102(c), Oct. 7, 2008, 122 Stat. 3956, substituted ‘‘Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program’’ for ‘‘Child Welfare Services’’ in sub- part heading. Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13711(a)(1), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 649, added subpart 1 heading. § 620. Repealed. Pub. L. 109–288, § 6(a), Sept. 28, 2006, 120 Stat. 1244 Section, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 420, as added Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 240(c), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 911; amended Pub. L. 92–603, title IV, § 412, Oct. 30, 1972,

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42 U.S.C. § 701 — Authorization of appropriations; purposes;

Page 2429 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 701 1 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. 2 See References in Text note below. retary for Family Support, and provisions relating to termination of entitlement under AFDC program, see section 116 of Pub. L. 104–193, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of this title. SUBCHAPTER V—MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Pub. L. 97–35, title XXI, § 2192(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 818, substituted ‘‘MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT’’ for ‘‘MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S SERV- ICES’’ as the heading of title V of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 701 et seq.] as part of the general revision of this subchapter. § 701. Authorization of appropriations; purposes; definitions (a) To improve the health of all mothers and children consistent with the applicable health status goals and national health objectives es- tablished by the Secretary under the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.] for the year 2000, there are authorized to be appro- priated $850,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and each fiscal year thereafter— (1) for the purpose of enabling each State— (A) to provide and to assure mothers and children (in particular those with low in- come or with limited availability of health services) access to quality maternal and child health services; (B) to reduce infant mortality and the in- cidence of preventable diseases and handi- capping conditions among children, to re- duce the incidence of stillbirth, to reduce the need for inpatient and long-term care services, to increase the number of children (especially preschool children) appropriately immunized against disease and the numbe

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42 U.S.C. § 9831 — Statement of purpose

Page 7833 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 9831 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 [Aug. 13, 1981]). ‘‘(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.’’ SUBCHAPTER II—HEAD START PROGRAMS Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Subchapter is based on subchapter B of chapter 8 of subtitle A of title VI of Pub. L. 97–35, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 499, as amended. § 9831. Statement of purpose It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote the school readiness of low-income children by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development— (1) in a learning environment that supports children’s growth in language, literacy, math- ematics, science, social and emotional func- tioning, creative arts, physical skills, and ap- proaches to learning; and (2) through the provision to low-income chil- dren and their families of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assess- ments, to be necessary. (Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 636, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 499; Pub. L. 101–501, title I, § 102, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1224; Pub. L. 105–285, title I, § 102, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2703; Pub. L. 110–134, § 2, Dec. 12, 2007, 121 Stat. 1363.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 2007—Pub. L. 110–134 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: ‘‘It is the purpose of this subchapter to promote school readiness by en- hancing the social and cognitive development of low-in- come children through the provision, to low-income children and their families, of health, educational, nu- tritional, social, and other services that are deter- mined, based on family needs assessments, to be nec- essary.’’ 1998—Pub. L. 105–285 amended section catchline and

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