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[CITE: 42USC300z-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
     SUBCHAPTER XVIII--ADOLESCENT FAMILY LIFE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
 
Sec. 300z-1. Definitions; regulations applicable

    (a) For the purposes of this subchapter, the term--
        (1) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Health and Human 
    Services;
        (2) ``eligible person'' means--
            (A) with regard to the provision of care services, a 
        pregnant adolescent, an adolescent parent, or the family of a 
        pregnant adolescent or an adolescent parent; or
            (B) with regard to the provision of prevention services and 
        referral to such other services which may be appropriate, a 
        nonpregnant adolescent;

        (3) ``eligible grant recipient'' means a public or nonprofit 
    private organization or agency which demonstrates, to the 
    satisfaction of the Secretary--
            (A) in the case of an organization which will provide care 
        services, the capability of providing all core services in a 
        single setting or the capability of creating a network through 
        which all core services would be provided; or
            (B) in the case of an organization which will provide 
        prevention services, the capability of providing such services;

        (4) ``necessary services'' means services which may be provided 
    by grantees which are--
            (A) pregnancy testing and maternity counseling;
            (B) adoption counseling and referral services which present 
        adoption as an option for pregnant adolescents, including 
        referral to licensed adoption agencies in the community if the 
        eligible grant recipient is not a licensed adoption agency;
            (C) primary and preventive health services including 
        prenatal and postnatal care;
            (D) nutrition information and counseling;
            (E) referral for screening and treatment of venereal 
        disease;
            (F) referral to appropriate pediatric care;
            (G) educational services relating to family life and 
        problems associated with adolescent premarital sexual relations, 
        including--
                (i) information about adoption;
                (ii) education on the responsibilities of sexuality and 
            parenting;
                (iii) the development of material to support the role of 
            parents as the provider of sex education; and
                (iv) assistance to parents, schools, youth agencies, and 
            health providers to educate adolescents and preadolescents 
            concerning self-discipline and responsibility in human 
            sexuality;

            (H) appropriate educational and vocational services;
            (I) referral to licensed residential care or maternity home 
        services; and
            (J) mental health services and referral to mental health 
        services and to other appropriate physical health services;
            (K) child care sufficient to enable the adolescent parent to 
        continue education or to enter into employment;
            (L) consumer education and homemaking;
            (M) counseling for the immediate and extended family members 
        of the eligible person;
            (N) transportation;
            (O) outreach services to families of adolescents to 
        discourage sexual relations among unemancipated minors;
            (P) family planning services; and
            (Q) such other services consistent with the purposes of this 
        subchapter as the Secretary may approve in accordance with 
        regulations promulgated by the Secretary;

        (5) ``core services'' means those services which shall be 
    provided by a grantee, as determined by the Secretary by regulation;
        (6) ``supplemental services'' means those services which may be 
    provided by a grantee, as determined by the Secretary by regulation;
        (7) ``care services'' means necessary services for the provision 
    of care to pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents and includes 
    all core services with respect to the provision of such care 
    prescribed by the Secretary by regulation;
        (8) ``prevention services'' means necessary services to prevent 
    adolescent sexual relations, including the services described in 
    subparagraphs (A), (D), (E), (G), (H), (M), (N), (O), and (Q) of 
    paragraph (4);
        (9) ``adolescent'' means an individual under the age of 
    nineteen; and
        (10) ``unemancipated minor'' means a minor who is subject to the 
    control, authority, and supervision of his or her parents or 
    guardians, as determined under State law.

    (b) Until such time as the Secretary promulgates regulations 
pursuant to the second sentence of this subsection, the Secretary shall 
use the regulations promulgated under title VI of the Health Services 
and Centers Amendments of 1978 [42 U.S.C. 300a-21 et seq.] which were in 
effect on August 13, 1981, to determine which necessary services are 
core services for purposes of this subchapter. The Secretary may 
promulgate regulations to determine which necessary services are core 
services for purposes of this subchapter based upon an evaluation of and 
information concerning which necessary services are essential to carry 
out the purposes of this subchapter and taking into account (1) factors 
such as whether services are to be provided in urban or rural areas, the 
ethnic groups to be served, and the nature of the populations to be 
served, and (2) the results of the evaluations required under section 
300z-5(b) of this title. The Secretary may from time to time revise such 
regulations.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XX, Sec. 2002, as added Pub. L. 97-35, 
title IX, Sec. 955(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 580; amended Pub. L. 98-
512, Sec. 2(d), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2409.)

                       References in Text

    The Health Services and Centers Amendments of 1978, referred to in 
subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 95-626, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3551, as 
amended. Title VI of the Health Services and Centers Amendments of 1978 
was classified generally to part A (Sec. 300a-21 et seq.) of subchapter 
VIII-A of this chapter prior to its repeal by Pub. L. 97-35, title IX, 
Sec. 955(b), title XXI, Sec. 2193(f), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 592, 828. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 
1978 Amendments note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a)(4)(H). Pub. L. 98-512 struck out ``and referral to 
such services'' after ``vocational services''.
