---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–25"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–25"
heading: "Continuum of health insurance coverage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-25"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part B — Care Grant Program"
  - "Subpart i — general grant provisions"
---

# §300ff–25. Continuum of health insurance coverage

- (a) **In general—** A [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) may use amounts received under a grant awarded under [section 300ff–21 of this title](/usc/42/300ff–21.md) to establish a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of financial assistance under [section 300ff–22(b)(3)(F) of this title](/usc/42/300ff–22.md?p=b-3-F) to assist eligible low-income individuals with HIV/AIDS in—
  - (1) maintaining a continuity of health insurance; or
  - (2) receiving medical benefits under a health insurance [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), including risk-pools.
- (b) **Limitations—** Assistance shall not be utilized under [subsection (a)](#a)—
  - (1) to pay any costs associated with the creation, capitalization, or administration of a liability risk pool (other than those costs paid on behalf of individuals as part of premium contributions to existing liability risk pools); and
  - (2) to pay any amount expended by a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under title XIX of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 1396](/usc/42/1396.md) et seq.].

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2615, as added Pub. L. 101–381, title II, § 201, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 590; amended Pub. L. 109–415, title II, §§ 201(c)(3), 204(a), title VII, §§ 702(3), 703, Dec. 19, 2006, 120 Stat. 2788, 2796, 2820; Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), (3)(A), Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2885.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620. Title XIX of the Social Security Act is classified generally to subchapter XIX (§ 1396 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–87 repealed Pub. L. 109–415, § 703, and revived the provisions of this section as in effect on Sept. 30, 2009. See 2006 Amendment note and Effective Date of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section note below.

2006—Pub. L. 109–415, § 703, which directed repeal of this section effective Oct. 1, 2009, was itself repealed by Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), effective Sept. 30, 2009.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–415, §§ 201(c)(3), 204(a), 702(3), in introductory provisions, substituted “HIV/AIDS” for “HIV disease”, “section 300ff–21 of this title” for “this part”, and “section 300ff–22(b)(3)(F) of this title” for “section 300ff–22(a)(3) of this title”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section

For provisions that repeal by section 2(a)(1) of Pub. L. 111–87 of section 703 of Pub. L. 109–415 be effective Sept. 30, 2009, and that the provisions of this section as in effect on Sept. 30, 2009, be revived, see section 2(a)(2), (3)(A) of Pub. L. 111–87, set out as a note under section 300ff–11 of this title.