§ 9412. Definitions

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. 1980

   Mental Health Systems Act

   Pub. L. 96–398 title I § 102 · 94 Stat. 1564

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 9412

   Pub. L. 96–398, title I, § 102, Oct. 7, 1980, 94 Stat. 1569

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 96–398, title I, § 102, Oct. 7, 1980, 94 Stat. 1569

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 102. other definitions For purposes of this Act: 42 USC 9412. (1) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (2) The term “State” includes (in addition to the fifty States) the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. (3) The term “State mental health authority” means the agency of a State designated under section 105 to be responsible for the mental health programs of the State. (4) The term “mental health service area” means an area established under section 106. (5) The term “nonprofit”, as applied to any entity, means an entity which is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures or may lawfully inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or person. (6) The term “priority population group” means an identifiable population group in a mental health service area which is unserved or underserved by mental health programs in such area as determined under a health systems plan or a State health plan in effect under section 1513 or 1524 of the Public Health 42 USC 300l–2, 300m–3. Service Act. (7) The term “Governor” means the chief executive officer of a State.

2. 1981

   Pub. L. 97–35 title IX § 902(f)(1)(B) · 95 Stat. 357

   Redesignated · 42 U.S.C. § 9412

   Pub. L. 97–35 redesignated former par. (5) as (3). Former pars. (3), (4), (6), and (7), which defined “State mental health authority”, “mental health service area”, “priority population group”, and “Governor”, respectively, were struck out

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 97–35 redesignated former par. (5) as (3). Former pars. (3), (4), (6), and (7), which defined “State mental health authority”, “mental health service area”, “priority population group”, and “Governor”, respectively, were struck out.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (B) by striking out “other” in the section heading for section 102; and

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 902(h) of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 238l of this title.

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