42 U.S.C. § 300u–3
Grants and contracts for information programs; authority of Secretary; particular activities
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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- 42 U.S.C. § 300u–3, Grants and contracts for information programs; authority of Secretary; particular activities, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/476341
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The Secretary is authorized to conduct and support by grant or contract (and encourage others to support) such activities as may be required to make information respecting health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of health care available to the consumers of medical care, providers of such care, schools, and others who are or should be informed respecting such matters. Such activities may include at least the following:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide authority for health information and health promotion programs, to revise and extend the authority for disease prevention and control programs, and to revise and extend the authority for venereal disease programs, and to amend the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act to revise and extend that Act.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Amendments of 1983House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally