114 STAT. 1190 PUBLIC LAW 106-310—OCT. 17, 2000 "(4) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.— With respect to activities for which a grant, contract or cooperative agreement is awarded under this section, the Secretary may require that recipients for specific projects under subsection (a) agree to maintain expenditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at a level that is not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by the entity for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the entity receives such a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement. "(d) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall evaluate each project carried out under subsection (a)(1) and shall disseminate the findings with respect to each such evaluation to appropriate public and private entities. "(e) INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary shall establish information and education programs to disseminate and apply the findings of the knowledge development and application, training, and technical assistance programs, and targeted capacity response programs, under this section to the general public, to health care professionals, and to interested groups. The Secretary shall make every effort to provide linkages between the findings of supported projects and State agencies responsible for carrying out mental health services. " (2) RURAL AND UNDERSERVED AREAS.— In disseminating information on evidence-based practices in the provision of children's mental health services under this subsection, the Secretary shall ensure that such information is distributed to rural and medically underserved areas. "(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002 and 2003. "(2) DATA INFRASTRUCTURE. —I f amounts are not appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out section 1971 with respect to mental health, then the Secretary shall make available, from the amounts appropriated for such fiscal year under paragraph (1), an amount equal to the sum of $6,000,000 and 10 percent of all amounts appropriated for such fiscal year under such paragraph in excess of $100,000,000, to carry out such section 1971.". (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (1) Section 303 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242a) is repealed. (2) Section 520B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb-33) is repealed. (3) Section 612 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 42 USC 290bb- Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa-3 note) is repealed. SEC. 3202. GRANTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS. Section 506 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290aa- 5) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 506. GRANTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS. "(a) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary shall award grants, contracts and cooperative agreements to community-based public and private nonprofit entities for the purposes of providing mental health and substance abuse services for homeless individuals. In carrying out 32 note.
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