---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300x–21"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300x–21"
heading: "Formula grants to States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300x-21"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Block Grants"
  - "Part B — Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use"
  - "Subpart ii — block grants for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services"
---

# §300x–21. Formula grants to States

- (a) **In general—** For the purpose described in [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the Center for Substance Abuse [Treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11), shall make an allotment each fiscal year for each [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) in an amount determined in accordance with [section 300x–33 of this title](/usc/42/300x–33.md). The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall make a grant to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) of the allotment made for the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) for the fiscal year if the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) submits to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) an application in accordance with [section 300x–32 of this title](/usc/42/300x–32.md).
- (b) **Authorized activities—** A [funding agreement](/usc/42/300x–8.md?p=2) for a grant under [subsection (a)](#a) is that, subject to [section 300x–31 of this title](/usc/42/300x–31.md), the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) involved will expend the grant only for the purpose of carrying out the plan developed in accordance with [section 300x–32(b) of this title](/usc/42/300x–32.md?p=b) and for planning, carrying out, and evaluating activities to prevent, treat, and provide recovery support [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for [substance use disorders](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=4) and for related activities authorized in [section 300x–24 of this title](/usc/42/300x–24.md).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1921, as added Pub. L. 102–321, title II, § 202, July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 388; amended Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title VIII, § 8002(a), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1229; Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title I, § 1242, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5678.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1921 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300x–9 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–321.

Another prior section 1921 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300y of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–690.

### Amendments

2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “activities to prevent, treat, and provide recovery support services for substance use disorders” for “activities to prevent and treat substance use disorders”.

2016—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–255 inserted “carrying out the plan developed in accordance with section 300x–32(b) of this title and for” after “for the purpose of” and substituted “use disorders” for “abuse”.