---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300z–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300z–3"
heading: "Uses of grants for demonstration projects for services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300z-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects"
---

# §300z–3. Uses of grants for demonstration projects for services

- (a) **Covered projects—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), funds provided for demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under this subchapter may be used by grantees only to—
  - (1) provide to [eligible persons](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-2)—
    - (A) [care services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-7);
    - (B) [prevention services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-8); or
    - (C) care and [prevention services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-8) (in the case of a grantee who is providing a combination of care and [prevention services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-8));
  - (2) coordinate, integrate, and provide linkages among [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) of care, prevention, and other [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for [eligible persons](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-2) in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter;
  - (3) provide [supplemental services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-6) where such [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) are not adequate or not available to [eligible persons](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-2) in the community and which are essential to the care of pregnant [adolescents](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) and to the prevention of [adolescent](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) premarital sexual relations and [adolescent](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) pregnancy;
  - (4) plan for the administration and coordination of pregnancy [prevention services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-8) and [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of care for pregnant [adolescents](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) and [adolescent](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) parents which will further the objectives of this subchapter; and
  - (5) fulfill assurances required for grant approval by [section 300z–5 of this title](/usc/42/300z–5.md).
- (b) **Family planning services; availability in community—**
  - (1) No funds provided for a demonstration [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under this subchapter may be used for the provision of family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) (other than counseling and referral [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a)) to [adolescents](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) unless appropriate family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) are not otherwise available in the community.
  - (2) Any grantee who receives funds for a demonstration [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under this subchapter and who, after determining under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) that appropriate family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) are not otherwise available in the community, provides family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) (other than counseling and referral [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a)) to [adolescents](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) may only use funds provided under this subchapter for such family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) if all funds received by such grantee from all other sources to support such family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) are insufficient to support such family planning [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).
- (c) **Fees for services: criteria—** Grantees who receive funds for a demonstration [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under this subchapter shall charge fees for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) pursuant to a fee schedule approved by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) as a part of the application described in [section 300z–5 of this title](/usc/42/300z–5.md) which bases fees charged by the grantee on the income of the [eligible person](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-2) or the parents or legal guardians of the [eligible person](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-2) and takes into account the difficulty [adolescents](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-9) face in obtaining resources to pay for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a). A grantee who receives funds for a demonstration [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under this subchapter may not, in any case, discriminate with regard to the provision of [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to any individual because of that individual’s inability to provide payment for such [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), except that in determining the ability of an [unemancipated minor](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-10) to provide payment for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), the income of the family of an [unemancipated minor](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-10) shall be considered in determining the ability of such minor to make such payments unless the parents or guardians of the [unemancipated minor](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-10) refuse to make such payments.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XX, § 2004, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 955(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 583.)