---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee"
heading: "Use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
---

# §300ee. Use of funds

- (a) **In general—** The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the establishment of education and information [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to prevent and reduce exposure to, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- (b) **Contents of programs—** All [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of education and information receiving funds under this subchapter shall include information about the harmful effects of promiscuous sexual activity and intravenous substance abuse, and the benefits of abstaining from such activities.
- (c) **Limitation—** None of the funds appropriated to carry out this subchapter may be used to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse.
- (d) **Construction—** [Subsection (c)](#c) may not be construed to restrict the ability of an education [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) that includes the information required in [subsection (b)](#b) to provide accurate information about various means to reduce an individual’s risk of exposure to, or the transmission of, the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, provided that any informational materials used are not obscene.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, § 2500, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3093; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title II, § 2619(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4242; renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101–93, § 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 612.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–690 substituted “this subchapter” for “this part”.

### 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.