---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 296b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "296b"
heading: "Use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/296b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter VI — Nursing Workforce Development"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §296b. Use of funds

- (a) **In general—** Amounts provided under a grant or contract awarded under this subchapter may be used for training [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) development and support, faculty development, model demonstrations, trainee support including tuition, books, [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) fees and reasonable living expenses during the period of training, technical assistance, workforce analysis, and dissemination of information, as appropriate to meet recognized nursing objectives, in accordance with this subchapter.
- (b) **Maintenance of effort—** With respect to activities for which a grant awarded under this subchapter is to be expended, the entity shall agree to maintain expenditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at a level that is not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by the entity for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the entity receives such a grant. Such Federal funds are intended to supplement, not supplant, existing non-Federal expenditures for such activities.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 803, as added Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 123(4), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3564; amended Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title III, § 3404(a)(3), Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 392.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 296b, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 803, as added Sept. 4, 1964, Pub. L. 88–581, § 2, 78 Stat. 911; amended Aug. 16, 1968, Pub. L. 90–490, title II, § 202, 82 Stat. 780; Nov. 18, 1971, Pub. L. 92–158, §§ 2(b), 13, 85 Stat. 465, 480; July 29, 1975, Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 941(b), 89 Stat. 364, set forth provisions relating to amount of construction grant, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–92, §§ 9(a)(1), 10(a), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 400, 402, effective Oct. 1, 1985.

### Amendments

2020—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116–136 inserted at end “Such Federal funds are intended to supplement, not supplant, existing non-Federal expenditures for such activities.”