42 U.S.C. § 300ff–87 — Severity of need index

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 109-415 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 306 words · no verdicts yet

in plain englishAI-generated · not legal advice

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must create a severity of need index by September 30, 2008. This index measures how much need people with HIV/AIDS have in a state or area. If the Secretary misses the deadline, yearly reports to Congress are required instead.

(a) Development of index By September 30, 2008, the Secretary must build a "severity of need index" and send it to the right congressional committees. (b) Definition of severity of need index A "severity of need index" measures how much need people have within a state or area. It looks at several different factors. It is a number, or set of numbers, multiplied by the count of living HIV/AIDS cases in a state or area. This gives more weight to cases with greater needs. The factors used can be different for different parts of this subchapter's programs. (c) Requirements for Secretarial submission When the Secretary sends Congress the severity of need index from subsection (a), the Secretary must also include: (1) How the index was built and why, including results from field testing it. (2) An analysis of that work done by an independent contractor. (3) An explanation of how the Secretary gathered community input on building and using the index. (d) Annual reports If the Secretary does not submit the severity of need index by fiscal year 2007 or fiscal year 2008, the Secretary must instead prepare and submit a report to Congress for that year. The report must: (1) Update progress on getting client-level data. (2) Update progress on building the severity of need index, including the methodology and how community input was gathered. (3) State, if the Secretary can say so, whether a severity of need index could be ready before fiscal year 2009.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

(a) Development of index

Not later than September 30, 2008, the Secretary shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a severity of need index in accordance with subsection (c).

(b) Definition of severity of need index

In this section, the term “severity of need index” means the index of the relative needs of individuals within a State or area, as identified by a number of different factors, and is a factor or set of factors that is multiplied by the number of living HIV/AIDS cases in a State or area, providing different weights to those cases based on needs. Such factors or set of factors may be different for different components of the provisions under this subchapter.

When the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees of Congress the severity of need index under subsection (a), the Secretary shall provide the following:

(1)

Methodology for and rationale behind developing the severity of need index, including information related to the field testing of the severity of need index.

(2)

An independent contractor analysis of activities carried out under paragraph (1).

(3)

Information regarding the process by which the Secretary received community input regarding the application and development of the severity of need index.

(d) Annual reports

If the Secretary fails to submit the severity of need index under subsection (a) in either of fiscal years 2007 or 2008, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report for such fiscal year—

(1)

that updates progress toward having client level data;

(2)

that updates the progress toward having a severity of need index, including information related to the methodology and process for obtaining community input; and

(3)

that, as applicable, states whether the Secretary could develop a severity of need index before fiscal year 2009.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2687, as added and amended Pub. L. 109–415, title V, § 501, title VII, § 703, Dec. 19, 2006, 120 Stat. 2814, 2820; Pub. L. 111–87, § 2(a)(1), (3)(A), Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2885.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1944Enacted · Pub. L. 109-415 · 120 Stat. 2814, 2820
2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-87 · 123 Stat. 2885

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 109-415 on 1944-07-01.

all 0 arguments · sorted by: best

no arguments yet — make the first case