---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–63"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–63"
heading: "Applicability of requirements regarding confidentiality, informed consent, and counseling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-63"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part C — Early Intervention Services"
  - "Subpart ii — general provisions"
---

# §300ff–63. Applicability of requirements regarding confidentiality, informed consent, and counseling


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may not make a grant under this part unless the applicant for the grant agrees that, with respect to testing for HIV/AIDS, any such testing carried out by the applicant with funds appropriated through this chapter will be carried out in accordance with conditions described in sections [300ff–61](/usc/42/300ff–61.md) and [300ff–62](/usc/42/300ff–62.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2663, as added Pub. L. 101–381, title III, § 301(a), Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 611; amended Pub. L. 109–415, title III, § 306(a), title VII, §§ 702(3), 703, Dec. 19, 2006, 120 Stat. 2809, 2820; Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), (3)(A), Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2885.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

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 L. 111–87 repealed Pub.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 L. 109–415, § 703, which directed repeal of this section effective Oct. 1, 2009, was itself repealed by Pub.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

Pub. L. 109–415, § 702(3), substituted “HIV/AIDS” for “HIV disease”.

Pub. L. 109–415, § 306(a), substituted “with funds appropriated through this chapter will be carried” for “will, without regard to whether such testing is carried out with Federal funds, be carried”.

### 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.