---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300t–11"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300t–11"
heading: "Grants and assistance for establishment of program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300t-11"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Health Resources Development"
  - "Part E — Program To Assist and Encourage Voluntary Discontinuance of Unneeded Hospital Services and Conversion of Unneeded Hospital Services to Other Health Services Needed by Community"
---

# §300t–11. Grants and assistance for establishment of program


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, by April 1, 1980, establish a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) under which—

- (1) grants and technical assistance may be provided to [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) in operation on October 4, 1979, (A) for the discontinuance of unneeded [hospital](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and (B) for the conversion of unneeded [hospital](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1) [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to other health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) needed by the community; and
- (2) grants may be provided to [State Agencies](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=12) designated under [section 300m(b)(3)](/usc/42/300m.md)[^1] of this title for reducing excesses in resources and facilities of [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1).

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVI, § 1641, as added Pub. L. 96–79, title III, § 301(a), Oct. 4, 1979, 93 Stat. 636.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 300m of this title, referred to in par. (2), was in the original a reference to section 1521 of act July 1, 1944, which was repealed effective Jan. 1, 1987, by Pub. L. 99–660, title VII, § 701(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3799. Pub. L. 101–354, § 2, Aug. 10, 1990, 104 Stat. 410, enacted section 1503 of act July 1, 1944, which is classified to section 300m of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Unneeded Hospital Services; Study and Report of Effect of Elimination

Section 302 of Pub. L. 96–79, as amended by Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695, which provided that the Secretary of Health and Human Services conduct a study of the effect on the elimination of unneeded hospital services made during the two fiscal year period ending Sept. 30, 1981, by the program authorized by this part, and not later than Jan. 1, 1982, report the results of the study to Congress, was repealed by Pub. L. 97–414, § 9(h), Jan. 4, 1983, 96 Stat. 2064.