---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch7/schV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter V"
heading: "Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch7-schV"
sections_count: 20
---

# Subchapter V — Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 7 — Social Security

## Sections

- [§701. Authorization of appropriations; purposes; definitions](/usc/42/701.md)
- [§702. Allotment to States and Federal set-aside](/usc/42/702.md)
- [§703. Payments to States](/usc/42/703.md)
- [§703a. Omitted](/usc/42/703a.md)
- [§704. Use of allotment funds](/usc/42/704.md)
- [§704a. Omitted](/usc/42/704a.md)
- [§704b. Nonavailability of allotments after close of fiscal year](/usc/42/704b.md)
- [§705. Application for block grant funds](/usc/42/705.md)
- [§706. Administrative and fiscal accountability](/usc/42/706.md)
- [§707. Criminal penalty for false statements](/usc/42/707.md)
- [§708. Nondiscrimination provisions](/usc/42/708.md)
- [§709. Administration of Federal and State programs](/usc/42/709.md)
- [§710. Sexual risk avoidance education](/usc/42/710.md)
- [§711. Maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs](/usc/42/711.md)
- [§711a. Emergency assistance to families through home visiting programs](/usc/42/711a.md)
- [§712. Services to individuals with a postpartum condition and their families](/usc/42/712.md)
- [§713. Personal responsibility education](/usc/42/713.md)
- [§714...716. Omitted](/usc/42/714...716.md)
- [§721...728. Repealed.](/usc/42/721...728.md)
- [§729...731. Omitted](/usc/42/729...731.md)