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AUTHORIZATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 501. [42 U.S.C. 701] (a) To improve the health
of all mothers and children consistent with the applicable health status goals
and national health objectives established by the Secretary under the Public
Health Service Act[3] for the year 2000, there are authorized to be
appropriated $850,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and each fiscal year
thereafter—

(1) for the purpose of
enabling each State—

(A) to provide and to
assure mothers and children (in particular those with low income or with limited
availability of health services) access to quality maternal and child health
services;

(B) to reduce infant
mortality and the incidence of preventable diseases and handicapping conditions
among children, to reduce the need for inpatient and long-term care services, to
increase the number of children (especially preschool children) appropriately
immunized against disease and the number of low income children receiving health
assessments and follow-up diagnostic and treatment services, and otherwise to
promote the health of mothers and infants by providing prenatal, delivery, and
postpartum care for low income, at-risk pregnant women, and to promote the
health of children by providing preventive and primary care services for low
income children;

(C) to provide
rehabilitation services for blind and disabled individuals under the age of 16
receiving benefits under title XVI, to the extent medical assistance for such
services is not provided under title XIX; and

(D) to provide and to
promote family-centered, community-based, coordinated care (including care
coordination services, as defined in subsection (b)(3)) for children with
special health care needs and to facilitate the development of community-based
systems of services for such children and their families;

(2) for the purpose of
enabling the Secretary (through grants, contracts, or otherwise) to provide for
special projects of regional and national significance, research, and training
with respect to maternal and child health and children with special health care
needs (including early intervention training and services development), for
genetic disease testing, counseling, and information development and
dissemination programs, for grants (including funding for comprehensive
hemophilia diagnostic treatment centers) relating to hemophilia without regard
to age, and for the screening of newborns for sickle cell anemia, and other
genetic disorders and follow-up services; and

(3) subject to section 502(b)
for the purpose of enabling the Secretary (through grants, contracts, or
otherwise) to provide for developing and expanding the following—

(A) maternal and infant
health home visiting programs in which case management services as defined in
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(4), health education services, and
related social support services are provided in the home to pregnant women or
families with an infant up to the age one by an appropriate health professional
or by a qualified nonprofessional acting under the supervision of a health care
professional,

(B) projects designed to
increase the participation of obstetricians and pediatricians under the program
under this title and under state plans approved under title XIX,

(C) integrated maternal
and child health service delivery systems (of the type described in section 1136 and using,
once developed, the model application form developed under section 6506(a) of
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989[4]),

(D) maternal and child
health centers which (i) provide prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care for
pregnant women and preventive and primary care services for infants up to age
one, and (ii) operate under the direction of a not-for-profit hospital,

(E) maternal and child
health projects to serve rural populations, and

(F) outpatient and
community based services programs (including day care services) for children
with special health care needs whose medical services are provided primarily
through inpatient institutional care.

Funds appropriated under this section may only be used in
a manner consistent with the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of
1997.

(b) For purposes of this
title:

(1) The term
“consolidated health programs” means the programs administered under the
provisions of—

(A) this title (relating
to maternal and child health and services for children with special health care
needs),

(B) section 1615(c)
of this Act (relating to supplemental security income for disabled
children),

(C) sections 316
(relating to lead-based paint poisoning prevention programs), 1101(relating to
genetic disease programs), 1121 (relating to sudden infant death syndrome
programs) and 1131 (relating to hemophilia treatment centers) of the Public
Health Service Act[5], and

(D) title VI[6] of the Health Services and Centers Amendments of 1978
(Public Law 95-626; relating to adolescent pregnancy grants),

as such provisions were in effect before the date of the
enactment of the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Act[7].

(2) The term “low income”
means, with respect to an individual or family, such an individual or family
with an income determined to be below the income official poverty line defined
by the Office of Management and Budget and revised annually in accordance with
section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981[8].

(3) The term “care
coordination services” means services to promote the effective and efficient
organization and utilization of resources to assure access to necessary
comprehensive services for children with special health care needs and their
families.

(4) The term “case
management services” means—

(A) with respect to
pregnant women, services to assure access to quality prenatal, delivery, and
postpartum care; and

(B) with respect to
infants up to age one, services to assure access to quality preventive and
primary care services.

(c)(1)(A) For the
purpose of enabling the Secretary (through grants, contracts, or otherwise) to
provide for special projects of regional and national significance for the
development and support of family-to-family health information centers described
in paragraph (2), there is appropriated to the Secretary, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—

(i) $3,000,000 for
fiscal year 2007;

(ii) $4,000,000 for
fiscal year 2008; and

(iii) $5,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2009 through 2012[9].

(B) Funds appropriated or
authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph (A) shall—

(i) be in addition to
amounts appropriated under subsection (a) and retained under section 502(a)(1)
for the purpose of carrying out activities described in subsection (a)(2);
and

(ii) remain available
until expended.

(2) The family-to-family
health information centers described in this paragraph are centers that—

(A) assist families of
children with disabilities or special health care needs to make informed choices
about health care in order to promote good treatment decisions,
cost-effectiveness, and improved health outcomes for such children;

(B) provide information
regarding the health care needs of, and resources available for, such
children;

(C) identify successful
health delivery models for such children;

(D) develop with
representatives of health care providers, managed care organizations, health
care purchasers, and appropriate State agencies, a model for collaboration
between families of such children and health professionals;

(E) provide training and
guidance regarding caring for such children;

(F) conduct outreach
activities to the families of such children, health professionals, schools, and
other appropriate entities and individuals; and

(G) are staffed—

(i) by such families who
have expertise in Federal and State public and private health care systems;
and

(ii) by health
professionals.

(3) The Secretary shall
develop family-to-family health information centers described in paragraph (2)
in accordance with the following:

(A) With respect to
fiscal year 2007, such centers shall be developed in not less than 25
States.

(B) With respect to
fiscal year 2008, such centers shall be developed in not less than 40
States.

(C) With respect to
fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, such centers shall be
developed in all States.

(4) The provisions of
this title that are applicable to the funds made available to the Secretary
under section 502(a)(1)
apply in the same manner to funds made available to the Secretary under
paragraph (1)(A).

(5) For purposes of this
subsection, the term “State” means each of the 50 States and the District of
Columbia.

[3]  P.L. 78-410.

[4]  P.L. 101-239.

[5]  P.L. 97-35, §2193(b)(1), repealed §§316, 1101,
1121, and 1131 of P.L. 78-410.

[6]  P.L. 95-626, Title VI, was repealed by P.L. 97-35,
§955(b); 95 Stat. 592.

[7]  August 13, 1981 - P.L. 97-35, Title XXI, subtitle
D; 95 Stat. 818.

[8]  See Vol. II, P.L. 97-35, §673(2).

[9]  P.L. 111-148, §5507(b), struck out “fiscal year
2009” and inserted “each of fiscal years 2009 through 2012”, effective March 23,
2010.

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