---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300z–9"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300z–9"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300z-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects"
---

# §300z–9. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) For the purpose of carrying out this subchapter, there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985.
- (b) At least two-thirds of the amounts appropriated to carry out this subchapter shall be used to make grants for demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).
- (c) Not more than one-third of the amounts specified under [subsection (b)](#b) for use for grants for demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) shall be used for grants for demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for [prevention services](/usc/42/300z–1.md?p=a-8).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XX, § 2010, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 955(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 591; amended Pub. L. 98–512, § 2(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2409.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–509 inserted provisions authorizing appropriations for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1985.
