---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 254c–17"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "254c–17"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 108–163, § 2(e)(2), Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2021"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/254c-17"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part D — Primary Health Care"
  - "Subpart i — health centers"
---

# [§254c–17. Repealed. Pub. L. 108–163, § 2(e)(2), Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2021 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 107–251, title I, § 102, Oct. 26, 2002, 116 Stat. 1627, provided for grants to State professional licensing boards to develop and implement State policies to promote telemedicine.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal deemed to have taken effect immediately after the enactment of Pub. L. 107–251, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–163, set out as an Effective Date of 2003 Amendments note under section 233 of this title.