---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300u–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300u–2"
heading: "Grants and contracts for community health programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300u-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XV — Health Information and Health Promotion"
---

# §300u–2. Grants and contracts for community health programs

- (a) **Authority of Secretary; particular activities—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) is authorized to conduct and support by grant or contract (and encourage others to support) new and innovative [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care, and may specifically—
  - (1) support demonstration and training [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in such matters which [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) (A) are in [hospitals](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=1), ambulatory care settings, home care settings, [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6), day care [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for children, and other appropriate settings representative of broad cross sections of the population, and include public education activities of voluntary health [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), professional medical societies, and other private [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) health organizations, (B) focus on objectives that are measurable, and (C) emphasize the prevention or moderation of illness or accidents that appear controllable through individual knowledge and behavior;
  - (2) provide consultation and technical assistance to organizations that request help in planning, operating, or evaluating [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in such matters;
  - (3) develop health information and health promotion materials and teaching [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) including (A) model curriculums for the training of educational and health professionals and paraprofessionals in health education by medical, dental, and nursing [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6), [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) of public health, and other institutions engaged in training of educational or health professionals, (B) model curriculums to be used in elementary and secondary [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) and institutions of higher learning, (C) materials and [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for the continuing education of health professionals and paraprofessionals in the health education of their patients, (D) materials for public [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) use by the printed and broadcast media, and (E) materials and [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to assist [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) of health care in providing health education to their patients; and
  - (4) support demonstration and evaluation [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for individual and group self-help [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) designed to assist the [participant](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-11) in using his individual capacities to deal with health problems, including [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) concerned with obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.
- (b) **Grants to States and other public and nonprofit private entities; costs of demonstrating and evaluating programs; development of models—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) is authorized to make grants to [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) and other public and [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of demonstrating and evaluating [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) which provide information respecting the costs and quality of health care or information respecting health insurance policies and prepaid health plans, or information respecting both. After the development of models pursuant to section [300u–3(4)](/usc/42/300u–3.md?p=4) and [300u–3(5)](/usc/42/300u–3.md?p=5) of this title for such information, no grant may be made under this subsection for a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) unless the information to be provided under the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) is provided in accordance with one of such models applicable to the information.
- (c) **Private nonprofit entities; limitation on amount of grant or contract—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) is authorized to support by grant or contract (and to encourage others to support) private [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) entities working in health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care. The amount of any grant or contract for a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1978, for an entity may not exceed 25 per centum of the expenses of the entity for such fiscal year for health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1703, as added Pub. L. 94–317, title I, § 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 697.)