---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300x–27"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300x–27"
heading: "Treatment services for pregnant women"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300x-27"
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–27. Treatment services for pregnant women

- (a) **In general—** A [funding agreement](/usc/42/300x–8.md?p=2) for a grant under [section 300x–21 of this title](/usc/42/300x–21.md) is that the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) involved—
  - (1) will ensure that each pregnant woman in the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) who seeks or is referred for and would benefit from such [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) is given preference in admissions to [treatment facilities](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=6) receiving funds pursuant to the grant; and
  - (2) will, in carrying out [paragraph (1)](#a-1), publicize the availability to such women of [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) from the facilities and the fact that the women receive such preference.
- (b) **Referrals regarding States—** A [funding agreement](/usc/42/300x–8.md?p=2) for a grant under [section 300x–21 of this title](/usc/42/300x–21.md) is that, in carrying out [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1)—
  - (1) the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) involved will require that, in the event that a [treatment facility](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=6) has insufficient capacity to provide [treatment services](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=7) to any woman described in such subsection who seeks the [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) from the facility, the facility refer the woman to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f); and
  - (2) the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), in the case of each woman for whom a referral under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) is made to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f)—
    - (A) will refer the woman to a [treatment facility](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=6) that has the capacity to provide [treatment services](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=7) to the woman; or
    - (B) will, if no [treatment facility](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=6) has the capacity to admit the woman, make [interim services](/usc/42/300x–64.md?p=b-4) available to the woman not later than 48 hours after the women[^1] seeks the [treatment services](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=7).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “woman”.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1927, as added Pub. L. 102–321, title II, § 202, July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 395; amended Pub. L. 102–352, § 2(a)(10), Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 938.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1927 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300x–12 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–321.

Another prior section 1927 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300y–6 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–280.

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 102–352 struck out “available” before “interim services available”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 102–352 effective immediately upon effectuation of amendment made by Pub. L. 102–321, see section 3(1) of Pub. L. 102–352, set out as a note under section 285n of this title.