42 U.S.C. § 300u–11 — Prevention and Public Health Fund

(a) Purpose: This section creates the Prevention and Public Health Fund (the "Fund") inside the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary. Its job is to fund more, and steadier, national investment in prevention and public health programs, to improve health and slow the growth of health care costs for both private and public payers. (b) Funding: Congress authorizes and appropriates money to the Fund from the Treasury, in these amounts: $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; $1,000,000,000 for each year from 2012 through 2017; $900,000,000 for 2018; $900,000,000 for 2019; $950,000,000 for each of 2020 and 2021; $1,000,000,000 for each of 2022 and 2023; $1,300,000,000 for each of 2024 and 2025; $1,525,000,000 for each of 2026 and 2027; $1,725,000,000 for each of 2028 and 2029; and $2,000,000,000 for 2030 and every year after that. (c) Use of Fund: The Secretary must move Fund money into Department of Health and Human Services accounts, to increase funding above 2008 levels, for programs authorized by the Public Health Service Act. The money goes to prevention, wellness, and public health work — including prevention research, health screenings, and programs like the Community Transformation grant program, the Education and Outreach Campaign on preventive benefits, and immunization programs. (d) Transfer authority: The Senate and House Appropriations Committees can transfer Fund money to eligible activities under this section, as long as the transfer follows the rules in subsection (c).