---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300x–68"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300x–68"
heading: "Joint applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300x-68"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Block Grants"
  - "Part B — Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use"
  - "Subpart iii — general provisions"
---

# §300x–68. Joint applications


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) for Mental Health and Substance Use, shall permit a joint application to be submitted for grants under subpart I and subpart II upon the request of a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f). Such application may be jointly reviewed and approved by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) with respect to such subparts, consistent with the purposes and [authorized activities](/usc/42/300x–34.md?p=1) of each such grant [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4). A [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) submitting such a joint application shall otherwise meet the requirements with respect to each such subpart.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1958, as added Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title VIII, § 8003(3), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1233.)