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# O.C.G.A. § 31-7-53. Matching formula; priority system; use of earnings; approval of federal grant.

(a) The state agency shall establish a matching formula for each construction and modernization category by fiscal year. Any change in a matching formula shall apply in the same manner to each construction and modernization project within the category approved during the fiscal year.

(b) Grants made pursuant to this article shall be in accordance with the priority system as approved by the state agency and the United States secretary of health and human services.

(c) No part of the net earnings of publicly owned and publicly operated medical facilities, auxiliary medical facilities, and mental health centers constructed with the assistance of a grant under this article shall inure to the benefit of any private corporation or individual.

(d) Any grant made pursuant to this article shall be contingent upon the approval for that project of a federal grant approved by the United States secretary of health and human services under either Title VI or Title VII of the federal Public Health Service Act, as now or hereafter amended.

## History

Ga. L. 1949, p. 263, § 1; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 214, § 1; Ga. L. 1955, p. 410, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-2105, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-2104, enacted by Ga. L. 1966, p. 716, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 31; Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 4-4/HB 252; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 31/HB 323.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 1-1/HB 252, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘J. Calvin Hill, Jr., Act.’”

## U.s. Code.

Titles VI and VII of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, referred to in subsection (d), are codified as 42 U.S.C. §§ 291 et seq. and 292a et seq., respectively.