---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290cc–34"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290cc–34"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290cc-34"
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–34. Definitions


For purposes of this part:

- (1) **Eligible homeless individual—** The term “eligible homeless individual” means an individual described in [section 290cc–22(a) of this title](/usc/42/290cc–22.md?p=a).
- (2) **Homeless individual—** The term “homeless individual” has the meaning given such term in [section 254b(h)(5) of this title](/usc/42/254b.md?p=h-5).
- (3) **State—** The term “[State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f)” means each of the several [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- (4) **Substance use disorder services—** The term “substance use disorder services” has the meaning given the term “substance abuse services” in [section 254b(h)(5)(C)](/usc/42/254b.md)[^1] of this title.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 534, as added Pub. L. 100–77, title VI, § 611(3), July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 522; amended Pub. L. 101–645, title V, § 511, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4733; Pub. L. 107–251, title VI, § 601(b), Oct. 26, 2002, 116 Stat. 1665; Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title IX, § 9004(e), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1238.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 254b(h)(5)(C) of this title, referred to in par. (4), was redesignated section 254b(h)(5)(B) of this title and the definition of “substance abuse services” was amended to define “substance use disorder services” by Pub. L. 115–123, div. E, title IX, § 50901(b)(8)(B)(ii), (iii), Feb. 9, 2018, 132 Stat. 285.

### Amendments

2016—Par. (4). Pub. L. 114–255 amended par. (4) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The term ‘substance abuse’ means the abuse of alcohol or other drugs.”

2002—Par. (2). Pub. L. 107–251 substituted “254b(h)(5) ” for “256(r)”.

1990—Pub. L. 101–645 amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to definitions for provisions relating to nondiscrimination.