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[CITE: 42USC300w-9]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                      SUBCHAPTER XVII--BLOCK GRANTS
 
       Part A--Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grants
 
Sec. 300w-9. Emergency medical services for children


(a) Grant authority

    For activities in addition to the activities which may be carried 
out by States under section 300w-3(a)(1)(F) \1\ of this title, the 
Secretary may make grants to States or accredited schools of medicine in 
States to support a program of demonstration projects for the expansion 
and improvement of emergency medical services for children who need 
treatment for trauma or critical care. Any grant made under this 
subsection shall be for not more than a 3-year period (with an optional 
4th year based on performance), subject to annual evaluation by the 
Secretary. Only 3 grants under this subsection may be made in a State 
(to a State or to a school of medicine in such State) in any fiscal 
year.
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(b) Renewals

    The Secretary may renew a grant made under subsection (a) of this 
section for one additional one-year period only if the Secretary 
determines that renewal of such grant will provide significant benefits 
through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information or 
data which will be useful to States in which grants under such 
subsection have not been made.

(c) Definitions

    For purposes of this section--
        (1) the term ``school of medicine'' has the same meaning as in 
    section 292a(4) \1\ of this title; and
        (2) the term ``accredited'' has the same meaning as in section 
    292a(5) \1\ of this title.

(d) Authorization of appropriations

    To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated 
$2,000,000 for fiscal year 1985 and for each of the two succeeding 
fiscal years, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, $4,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1990, $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 and 1992, and 
such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 
2005.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, Sec. 1910, as added Pub. L. 98-555, 
Sec. 7, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2856; amended Pub. L. 99-272, title 
XVII, Sec. 17004, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 360; Pub. L. 100-607, title 
III, Sec. 302, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3112; Pub. L. 101-590, Sec. 5, 
Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2928; Pub. L. 102-410, Sec. 11, Oct. 13, 1992, 
106 Stat. 2101; Pub. L. 105-392, title IV, Sec. 415, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 
Stat. 3590.)

                       References in Text

    Section 300w-3(a)(1) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was 
amended generally by Pub. L. 102-531, title I, Sec. 102(a), Oct. 27, 
1992, 106 Stat. 3470, and, as so amended, provisions formerly appearing 
in subpar. (F) are contained in subpar. (C).
    Section 292a of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the 
original a reference to section 701 of act July 1, 1944. Section 701 of 
that Act was omitted in the general revision of subchapter V of this 
chapter by Pub. L. 102-408, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 
1994. Pub. L. 102-408 enacted a new section 701 of act July 1, 1944, 
relating to statement of purpose, and a new section 702, relating to 
scope and duration of loan insurance program, which are classified to 
sections 292 and 292a, respectively, of this title. For provisions 
relating to definitions, see section 295p of this title.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 415(1), substituted ``3-
year period (with an optional 4th year based on performance)'' for 
``two-year period'' and ``3 grants'' for ``one grant''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 415(2), substituted ``2005'' for 
``1997''.
    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-410, Sec. 11(1), substituted 
``grants'' for ``not more than four grants in any fiscal year'' after 
``Secretary may make'' in first sentence.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102-410, Sec. 11(2), substituted ``$5,000,000'' 
for ``and $5,000,000'' and inserted before period ``, and such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 1997''.
    1990--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-590, Sec. 5(1)(A), which directed the 
substitution of ``grants'' for ``not more that four grants in any fiscal 
year'' could not be executed because the language to be stricken did not 
appear in text.
    Pub. L. 101-590, Sec. 5(1)(B), struck out ``in such States'' after 
``demonstration projects'' in first sentence.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101-590, Sec. 5(2), substituted ``each of the 
fiscal years 1991 and 1992'' for ``fiscal year 1991''.
    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-607, Sec. 302(a), substituted ``shall 
be for not more than a two-year period, subject to annual evaluation by 
the Secretary'' for ``shall be for a one-year period''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100-607, Sec. 302(b), inserted ``, $3,000,000 
for fiscal year 1989, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $5,000,000 
for fiscal year 1991'' before period at end.
    1986--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-272, Sec. 17004(1), which directed 
substitution of ``not more than four grants in any fiscal year to States 
or accredited schools of medicine in States'' for ``grant to not more 
than four States in any fiscal year'' was made by substituting former 
phrase for ``grants to not more than four States in any fiscal year'', 
as the probable intent of Congress.
    Pub. L. 99-272, Sec. 17004(2), inserted at end ``Only one grant 
under this subsection may be made in a State (to a State or to a school 
of medicine in such State) in any fiscal year.''
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-272, Sec. 17004(3), substituted ``States in 
which grants under such subsection have not been made'' for ``other 
States''.
    Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 99-272, Sec. 17004(4), (5), added subsec. 
(c) and redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).
