Pub. L. 92-449, tit. II, sec. 203

Sec. 203. Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding immediately after section 317 thereof the following new section: “projects and programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease “Sec. 318. (a) The Secretary may provide technical assistance to appropriate public authorities and scientific institutions for their research, training, and public health programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease. “(b) (1) The Secretary’ is authorized to make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, and any other public or nonprofit private entity for projects for the conduct of research, demonstrations, and training for the prevention and control of venereal disease. “(2) For the purpose of carrying out this subsection, there is authorized to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each of the next two fiscal years. “(c) (1) There is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and for each of the next two fiscal years, to enable the Secretary to make grants to State health authorities to assist the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public health programs for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘State’ means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam. American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. “(2) Any State desiring to receive a grant under this subsection shall submit to the Secretary a State plan for a public health program for tile diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. Each State plan shall— “(A) provide for the administration or supervision of administration of the State plan by the State health authority; “(B) set forth the policies and procedures to be followed in the expenditure of the funds paid to the State under this subsection ; “(C) provide that the public health services furnished under the State plan will include the provision of Statewide laboratory services (including dark field microscope techniques for the diagnosis of both gonorrhea and syphilis), which services will be provided in accordance with standards prescribed by regulations, including standards as to the scope and quality of such services; “(D) contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory’ to the Secretary that (i) not less than 70 per centum of the funds paid to the State under this subsection will be used to provide and strengthen public health services hi its political subdivisions for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease: (ii) such funds 86 Stat. 752will be used to supplement and, to the extent practical. to increase the level of funds that would otherwise be made available for the purposes for which the Federal funds are provided under this subsection and will not supplant any non-Federal funds which would otherwise be available for such purposes; and (iii) the plan is compatible with the total health program of the State; “(E) provide that the State health authority will from time to time, but not less often than annually, review and evaluate its State plan approved under this subsection, and submit to the Secretary appropriate modifications thereof; “(F) provide that the State health authority will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time reasonably require, and will keep such records and afford such access thereto as the Secretary finds necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; “(G) provide for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure the proper disbursement of and accounting for funds paid to the State under this subsection; and “(H) contain such additional information and assurances as the Secretary may find necessary to carry out the purposes of this subsection. The Secretary shall approve any State plan and any modification thereof which’ meets the requirements of this paragraph. “(3) (A) Grants under this subsection shall be made from allotments to States made in accordance with this paragraph. For each fiscal year the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, allot the sums appropriated under paragraph (1) for such year among the States on the basis of the incidence of venereal disease in, and the population of, the respective States; except that no State’s allotment shall be less than $75,000 for any fiscal year. “(B) Any amount allotted to a State ( other than the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) under subparagraph (A) for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State, for the purposes for which made, for the next fiscal year (and for such year only), and any such amount shall be in addition to the amounts allotted to such State for such purpose for such next fiscal year; except that any such amount, remaining unobligated at the end of the sixth month following the end of such year for which it was allotted, which the Secretary determines will remain unobligated by the close of such next fiscal year, may be reallotted by the Secretary, to be available for the purposes for which made until the close of such next fiscal year, to other States which have need therefor, on such basis as the Secretary deems equitable and consistent with the purposes of this subsection, and any amount so reallotted to a State shall be in addition to the amounts allotted and available to the States for the same period. Any amount allotted under subparagraph (A) to the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to it for the purposes for which made, for the next two fiscal years (and for such years only), and any such amount shall be in addition to the am omits allotted to it for suck purposes for each of such next two fiscal years ; except that any such amount, remaining unobligated at the end of the first of such next two years, which the Secretary determines will remain unobligated at the close of the second of such next two years, may be reallotted by the Secretary, to be available for the purposes for which made until the 86 Stat. 753close of the second of such next two years, to any other of such named States which have need therefor, on such basis as the Secretary deems equitable and consistent with the purposes of this subsection, and any amount so reallotted to any such named State shall be in addition to any other amounts allotted and available to it for the same period. “(4) The amount of any grant under this subsection for public health programs under an approved State plan shall be determined by the Secretary, except that no grant for any such program may exceed 90 per centum of its cost (as determined under regulations of the Secretary). Payments under grants under this subsection shall be made from time to time in advance on the basis of estimates by the Secretary or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of previous underpayments or overpayments. “(d) (1) The Secretary is authorized to make project grants to States and, in consultation with the State health authority, to political subdivisions of States, for— “(A) venereal disease surveillance activities, including the reporting, screening, and followup of diagnostic tests for, and diagnosed cases of, venereal disease; “(B) casefinding and case followup activities respecting venereal disease, including contact tracing of infectious cases of venereal disease; “(C) interstate epidemiologic referral and followup activities respecting venereal disease; “(I) ) professional and public venereal disease education activities; and “(E) such special studies or demonstrations to evaluate or test venereal disease control as may be prescribed by the Secretary. “(2) For the purpose of carrying out this subsection, there is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and tor each of the next two succeeding fiscal years. “(e) (1) Grants made under subsection (b) or (d) of this section shall be made on such terms and conditions as the Secretary finds necessary to carry out the purposes of such subsection, and payments under any such grants shall be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments as the Secretary finds necessary. “(2) Each recipient of a grant under this section shall keep such records as the Secretory shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such grant, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection with which such grant was given or used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit. “(3) The Secretary and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of the recipients of grants under this section that are pertinent to such grants. “(4) The Secretary, at the request of a recipient of a grant under this section, may reduce such grant by the fair market value of any supplies or equipment furnished to such recipient and by the amount of nay, allowances, travel expenses, and any other costs in connection with the detail of an officer or employee of the United States to the recipient when the furnishing of such supplies or equipment or the detail of such an officer or employee is for the convenience of and at the request of such recipient and for the purpose of carrying out the program with respect to which the grant under this section is made. The amount by which any such grant is so reduced shall be available for86 Stat. 754 payment by the Secretary of the costs incurred in furnishing the supplies, equipment, or personal services on which the reduction of such grant is based; and, in the case of a grant under subsection (c), such amount shall be deemed a part of the grant to such recipient and shall, for the purposes of that subsection, be deemed to have been paid to such recipient. “(5) All information obtained in connection with the examination, care, or treatment of any individual under any program which is being carried out with a grant made under this section shall not, without such individual’s consent, be disclosed except as may be necessary to provide service to him. Information derived from any such program may be disclosed—防 “(A) in summary, statistical, or other form, or “(B) for clinical or research purposes, but only if the identity of the individuals diagnosed or provided care or treatment under such program is not disclosed. “(f) Except as provided in section 317(d) (4), no funds appropriated under any provision of this Act other than this section may be used to make grants in any fiscal year for programs or projects respecting venereal disease if (1) grants for such programs or projects are authorized by this section, and (2) all the funds authorized to be appropriated under this section for that fiscal year have not been appropriated for that fiscal year and obligated in that fiscal year. “(g) Not to exceed 50 per centum of the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section may be used by the Secretary for grants for such fiscal year under section 317. “(h) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any State or any political subdivision of a State to have a venereal disease program which would require any person, who objects to any treatment provided under such a program, to be treated or to have any child or ward of his treated under such a program.”