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[CITE: 42USC300x-27]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                      SUBCHAPTER XVII--BLOCK GRANTS
 
    Part B--Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Abuse
 
subpart ii--block grants for prevention and treatment of substance abuse
 
Sec. 300x-27. Treatment services for pregnant women


(a) In general

    A funding agreement for a grant under section 300x-21 of this title 
is that the State involved--
        (1) will ensure that each pregnant woman in the State who seeks 
    or is referred for and would benefit from such services is given 
    preference in admissions to treatment facilities receiving funds 
    pursuant to the grant; and
        (2) will, in carrying out paragraph (1), publicize the 
    availability to such women of services from the facilities and the 
    fact that the women receive such preference.

(b) Referrals regarding States

    A funding agreement for a grant under section 300x-21 of this title 
is that, in carrying out subsection (a)(1) of this section--
        (1) the State involved will require that, in the event that a 
    treatment facility has insufficient capacity to provide treatment 
    services to any woman described in such subsection who seeks the 
    services from the facility, the facility refer the woman to the 
    State; and
        (2) the State, in the case of each woman for whom a referral 
    under paragraph (1) is made to the State--
            (A) will refer the woman to a treatment facility that has 
        the capacity to provide treatment services to the woman; or
            (B) will, if no treatment facility has the capacity to admit 
        the woman, make interim services available to the woman not 
        later than 48 hours after the women \1\ seeks the treatment 
        services.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``woman''.
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(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, Sec. 1927, as added Pub. L. 102-321, 
title II, Sec. 202, July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 395; amended Pub. L. 102-
352, Sec. 2(a)(10), Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 938.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1927 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 
300x-12 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102-321.
    Another prior section 1927 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to 
section 300y-6 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99-280.


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 102-352 struck out ``available'' 
before ``interim services available''.


                    Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 102-352 effective immediately upon effectuation 
of amendment made by Pub. L. 102-321, see section 3(1) of Pub. L. 102-
352, set out as a note under section 285n of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300x-29 of this title.
