42 U.S.C. § 300b–4 — Public Health Service facilities

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 94-278 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 56 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must run a Public Health Service program offering voluntary testing, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment for genetic diseases. Anyone can request these services through Service facilities. The program must publicize that these services exist and are voluntary.

This section requires the Secretary to set up a program within the Public Health Service that offers voluntary testing, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment for genetic diseases. People who ask for these services can get them through Service facilities. The program must also properly publicize that these services are available and that using them is voluntary.

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The Secretary shall establish a program within the Service to provide voluntary testing, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment of individuals respecting genetic diseases. Services under such program shall be made available through facilities of the Service to persons requesting such services, and the program shall provide appropriate publicity of the availability and voluntary nature of such services.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XI, § 1105, as added Pub. L. 94–278, title IV, § 403(a), Apr. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 409.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 94-278 · 90 Stat. 409

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