---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12271"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12271"
heading: "Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis in correctional institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12271"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part H — Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Correctional Institutions"
---

# §12271. Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis in correctional institutions

- (a) **Guidelines—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and the Director of the National Institute of Corrections, shall develop and disseminate to appropriate entities, including [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal, and local correctional institutions and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15), and followup care of tuberculosis among inmates of correctional institutions and persons held in holding facilities operated by or under contract with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
- (b) **Compliance—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall ensure that prisons in the Federal prison system and holding facilities operated by or under contract with the Immigration and Naturalization Service comply with the guidelines described in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Grants—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall make grants to [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal, and local correction authorities and public health authorities to assist in establishing and operating programs for the prevention, diagnosis, [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15), and followup care of tuberculosis among inmates of correctional institutions.
  - (2) **Federal share—** The Federal share of funding of a program funded with a grant under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall not exceed 50 percent.
  - (3) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—
    - (A) $700,000 for fiscal year 1996;
    - (B) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
    - (C) $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;
    - (D) $1,100,000 for fiscal year 1999; and
    - (E) $1,200,000 for fiscal year 2000.
- (d) **Definitions—** In this section—

  “[Indian tribe](/usc/34/11103.md?p=18)” means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18), including an [Alaska Native village](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-2) (as defined in or established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ([43 U.S.C. 1601](/usc/43/1601.md) et seq.),[^1] that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) provided by the United States to [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) because of their status as [Indians](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18).

  “[State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7)” means a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 32201, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1901.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is Pub. L. 92–203, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 688, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13911 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.