42 U.S.C. · The Public Health and Welfare
42 U.S.C. § 300jj16

Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities

Ch. 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
Title 42 U.S.C. ● ACTIVE Primary Source Ch. 6A
Statutory Text

42 U.S.C. § 300jj16 — Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities

U.S.C. Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 42 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SUBCHAPTER XXVIII - HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY Part A - Promotion of Health Information Technology Sec. 300jj-16 - Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§300jj–16. Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities

(a) In general Except as provided under section 13112 of the HITECH Act [42 U.S.C. 17902], nothing in such Act or in the amendments made by such Act shall be construed— (1) to require a private entity to adopt or comply with a standard or implementation specification adopted under section 300jj–14 of this title; or (2) to provide a Federal agency authority, other than the authority such agency may have under other provisions of law, to require a private entity to comply with such a standard or implementation specification. (b) Rule of construction Nothing in this part shall be construed to require that a private entity that enters into a contract with the Federal Government apply or use the standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 300jj–14 of this title with respect to activities not related to the contract.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXX, §3006, as added Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, §13101, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 241.)

Editorial Notes

References in Text The HITECH Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is title XIII of div. A and title IV of div. B of Pub. L. 111–5, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 226, 467, also known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 2009 Amendment note set out under section 201 of this title and Tables.

Source: uscode.house.gov — public domain Official Source ↗
Root-LD Entity Data
◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org
Federation ID
BS-USC42-SEC-149C57
Entity Class
STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION
Domain Signature
boisestandard.org
Citation
42 U.S.C. § 300jj16
Jurisdiction
Federal — United States
Status
✓ ACTIVE
Source
PRIMARY-SOURCE
Source Verified
✓ TRUE
Content Hash
ef4ccaf6023d20ac...
Semantic Edges
Pending — corpus passes queued
The statutory text of 42 U.S.C. § 300jj16 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).
Navigate Corpus — Title 42
◈ Provenance
boisestandard.org United States Law U.S. Code Title 42 42 U.S.C. § 300jj16