42 USC 300ff-87 - Severity of need index

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 300ff–87.

Severity of need index

(a)

Development of index

(b)

Definition of severity of need index

(c)

Requirements for Secretarial submission

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.

(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.)

cite as: 42 USC 300ff-87