---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ii–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ii–2"
heading: "National lifespan respite resource center"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ii-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXVII — Lifespan Respite Care"
---

# §300ii–2. National lifespan respite resource center

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may award a grant or cooperative agreement to a public or private [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) entity to establish a National Resource Center on [Lifespan Respite Care](/usc/42/300ii.md?p=6) (referred to in this section as the “center”).
- (b) **Purposes of the center—** The center shall—
  - (1) maintain a national database on [lifespan respite care](/usc/42/300ii.md?p=6);
  - (2) provide training and technical assistance to [State](/usc/42/300ii.md?p=8), community, and [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) [respite care](/usc/42/300ii.md?p=7) [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4); and
  - (3) provide information, referral, and educational [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to the public on [lifespan respite care](/usc/42/300ii.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIX, § 2903, as added Pub. L. 109–442, § 2, Dec. 21, 2006, 120 Stat. 3295.)