---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290cc–25"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290cc–25"
heading: "Conversion to categorical program in event of failure of State regarding expenditure of grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290cc-25"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part C — Projects for Assistance in Transition From Homelessness"
---

# §290cc–25. Conversion to categorical program in event of failure of State regarding expenditure of grants

- (a) **In general—** Subject to [subsection (c)](#c), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, from the amounts specified in [subsection (b)](#b), make grants to public and [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities for the purpose of providing to [eligible homeless individuals](/usc/42/290cc–34.md?p=1) the [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) specified in [section 290cc–22(b) of this title](/usc/42/290cc–22.md?p=b).
- (b) **Specification of funds—** The amounts referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) are any amounts made available in appropriations Acts for allotments under [section 290cc–21 of this title](/usc/42/290cc–21.md) that are not paid to a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) as a result of—
  - (A) the failure of the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) to submit an application under [section 290cc–29 of this title](/usc/42/290cc–29.md);
  - (B) the failure of the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), in the determination of the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), to prepare the application in accordance with such section or to submit the application within a reasonable period of time; or
  - (C) the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) informing the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) that the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) does not intend to expend the full amount of the allotment made to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f).
- (c) **Requirement of provision of services in State involved—** With respect to grants under [subsection (a)](#a), amounts made available under [subsection (b)](#b) as a result of the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) involved shall be available only for grants to provide [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) in such [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 525, as added Pub. L. 100–77, title VI, § 611(3), July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 518; amended Pub. L. 101–645, title V, § 511, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4729.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 525 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 546 by section 611(2) of Pub. L. 100–77 and is classified to section 290ee–1 of this title.

### Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–645 amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to conversion to categorical program in event of failure of State regarding expenditure of grants for provisions relating to restrictions on use of payments.