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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 6A — Public Health Service

§ 296g. Prohibition against discrimination by schools on basis of sex

Statutory text

The Secretary may not make a grant, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy payment under this subchapter to, or for the benefit of, any school of nursing unless the application for the grant, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy payment contains assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the school will not discriminate on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its training programs. The Secretary may not enter into a contract under this subchapter with any school unless the school furnishes assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that it will not discriminate on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its training programs.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Nurse Training Act of 1971

    Pub. L. 92–158 § 11 · 85 Stat. 465

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 296g

    July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 845, as added Pub. L. 92–158, § 11, Nov. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 479

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 845, as added Pub. L. 92–158, § 11, Nov. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 479

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 11. prohibition against discrimination by schools on the basis of sex Part C of title VIII of the Public Health Service Act is 42 USC 298. amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “Sec. 845. “prohibition against discrimination by schools on the basis of sex The Secretary may not make a grant, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy payment under this title to, or for the benefit of, any school of nursing unless the application for the grant, loan guarantee, or interest subsidy payment contains assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the school will not discriminate on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its training programs. The Secretary may not enter into a contract under this title with any school unless the school furnishes assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that it will not discriminate on the basis of sex in the admission of individuals to its training programs.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 298b–2 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 105–392.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 296g, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 808, as added , Pub. L. 90–490, title II § 212, 82 Stat. 783; amended , Pub. L. 92–158, § 3(a), 85 Stat. 469; , Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 902(c), 89 Stat. 354, authorized appropriations for special project grants and contracts and financial distress grants from the fiscal year ending through the fiscal year ending , prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, §§ 905, 922, , 89 Stat. 355, 359, effective .

A prior section 296h, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 809, as added , Pub. L. 92–158, § 2(c), 85 Stat. 465, which related to loan guarantees and interest subsidies for construction of training facilities by nonprofit nursing schools, was renumbered section 805 of act , by Pub. L. 94–63 and transferred to section 296d of this title.

A prior section 296i, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 810, as added , Pub. L. 92–158, § 4(b), 85 Stat. 474; amended , Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 902(e), 89 Stat. 355, authorized grants for start-up programs for new nurse training programs, and set out prerequisites, etc., prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, §§ 905, 931(b), , 89 Stat. 355, 362, effective .

Credits

1944–2010 · 4 acts
  1. 1944July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 845, as added Pub. L. 92–158, § 11, , 85 Stat. 479
  2. 1975renumbered § 855, Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 941(k)(1), , 89 Stat. 366
  3. 1998renumbered § 810, Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 123(6), , 112 Stat. 3574
  4. 2010renumbered § 809, Pub. L. 111–148, title V, § 5310(b)(1), , 124 Stat. 631.
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(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 809, formerly § 845, as added Pub. L. 92–158, § 11, , 85 Stat. 479; renumbered § 855, Pub. L. 94–63, title IX, § 941(k)(1), , 89 Stat. 366; renumbered § 810, Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 123(6), , 112 Stat. 3574; renumbered § 809, Pub. L. 111–148, title V, § 5310(b)(1), , 124 Stat. 631.)

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