---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee–20"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee–20"
heading: "Technical assistance and provision by Secretary of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee-20"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part A — Formula Grants to States"
---

# §300ee–20. Technical assistance and provision by Secretary of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds

- (a) **Technical assistance—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may provide training and technical assistance to [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) with respect to the planning, development, and operation of any [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) or [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) carried out pursuant to this part. The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may provide such technical assistance directly or through grants or contracts.
- (b) **Provision by Secretary of supplies and services in lieu of grant funds—**
  - (1) Upon the request of a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) receiving payments under this part, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may, subject to [paragraph (2)](#b-2), provide supplies, equipment, and [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for the purpose of aiding the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) in carrying out such part and, for such purpose, may detail to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) any officer or [employee](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) of the Department of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).
  - (2) With respect to a request described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall reduce the amount of payments under [section 300ee–11(a) of this title](/usc/42/300ee–11.md?p=a) to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) by an amount equal to the costs of detailing personnel and the fair market value of any supplies, equipment, or [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) provided by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c). The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, for the payment of expenses incurred in complying with such request, expend the amounts withheld.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, § 2510, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3101; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2619(g) [(h)], Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4243; renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101–93, § 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 612.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2510 of act July 1, 1944, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts, see section 238i of this title.

### Amendments

1988—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 100–690 substituted “section 300ee–11(a) of this title” for “the program involved”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 100–690 effective immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–607, which was approved Nov. 4, 1988, see section 2600 of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.