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[CITE: 42USC280b-1a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
               Part J--Prevention and Control of Injuries
 
Sec. 280b-1a. Interpersonal violence within families and among 
        acquaintances
        
    (a) With respect to activities that are authorized in sections 280b 
and 280b-1 of this title, the Secretary, acting through the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out such 
activities with respect to interpersonal violence within families and 
among acquaintances. Activities authorized in the preceding sentence 
include the following:
        (1) Collecting data relating to the incidence of such violence.
        (2) Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for 
    the evaluation of programs whose purpose is to prevent such 
    violence, including the evaluation of demonstration projects under 
    paragraph (6).
        (3) Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for 
    the conduct of research on identifying effective strategies for 
    preventing such violence.
        (4) Providing to the public information and education on such 
    violence, including information and education to increase awareness 
    of the public health consequences of such violence.
        (5) Training health care providers as follows:
            (A) To identify individuals whose medical conditions or 
        statements indicate that the individuals are victims of such 
        violence.
            (B) To routinely determine, in examining patients, whether 
        the medical conditions or statements of the patients so 
        indicate.
            (C) To refer individuals so identified to entities that 
        provide services regarding such violence, including referrals 
        for counseling, housing, legal services, and services of 
        community organizations.

        (6) Making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for 
    demonstration projects with respect to such violence, including with 
    respect to prevention.

    (b) For purposes of this part, the term ``interpersonal violence 
within families and among acquaintances'' includes behavior commonly 
referred to as domestic violence, sexual assault, spousal abuse, woman 
battering, partner abuse, elder abuse, and acquaintance rape.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 393, as added Pub. L. 103-183, 
title II, Sec. 201(2), Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2231.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 393 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 394 
and is classified to section 280b-2 of this title.
    Another prior section 393 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered 
section 394 and was classified to section 280b-4 of this title.
