---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300b–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300b–2"
heading: "Voluntary participation by individuals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300b-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter IX — Genetic Diseases, Hemophilia Programs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"
  - "Part A — Genetic Diseases"
---

# §300b–2. Voluntary participation by individuals


The participation by any individual in any [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) or portion thereof under this part shall be wholly voluntary and shall not be a prerequisite to eligibility for or receipt of any other [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) or assistance from, or to participation in, any other [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XI, § 1103, as added Pub. L. 94–278, title IV, § 403(a), Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 408.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 300b–2, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XI, § 1103, as added May 16, 1972, Pub. L. 92–294, § 3(c), 86 Stat. 138; amended Aug. 29, 1972, Pub. L. 92–414, § 4(3), 86 Stat. 652, was identical to this section, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–278, title IV, § 403(a), Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 407.