---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–37"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–37"
heading: "State HIV testing programs established prior to or after May 20, 1996"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-37"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part B — Care Grant Program"
  - "Subpart ii — provisions concerning pregnancy and perinatal transmission of hiv"
---

# §300ff–37. State HIV testing programs established prior to or after May 20, 1996


Nothing in this subpart shall be construed to disqualify a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) from receiving grants under this subchapter if such [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) has established at any time prior to or after May 20, 1996, a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of mandatory HIV testing.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2627, formerly § 2629, as added Pub. L. 104–146, § 7(b)(3), May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1372; renumbered § 2627, Pub. L. 106–345, title II, § 211(3), Oct. 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 1339; amended Pub. L. 109–415, title VII, § 703, Dec. 19, 2006, 120 Stat. 2820; Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), (3)(A), Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2885.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2627 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300ff–35 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 106–345.

### 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 L. 111–87 repealed Pub.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 L. 109–415, § 703, which directed repeal of this section effective Oct. 1, 2009, was itself repealed by Pub.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.

### 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.

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 13 of Pub. L. 104–146, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 300ff–11 of this title.