§ 1396f. Observance of religious beliefs

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. 1968

   Social Security Amendments of 1967

   Pub. L. 90–248 title II § 232 · 81 Stat. 821

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1396f

   (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIX, § 1907, as added Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 232, Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 905.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XIX, § 1907, as added Pub. L. 90–248, title II, § 232, Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 905.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 232. observance of religious beliefs Title XIX of the Social Security Act (as amended by section 226 of this Act) is further amended by adding at the end thereof Ante, p. 903. the following new section: “Sec. 1907. “observance of religious beliefs Nothing in this title shall be construed to require any State which has a plan approved under this title to compel any person to undergo any medical screening, examination, diagnosis, or treatment or to accept any other health care or services provided under such plan for any purpose (other than for the purpose of discovering and preventing the spread of infection or contagious disease or for the purpose of protecting environmental health), if such person objects (or, in case such person is a child, his parent or guardian objects) thereto on religious grounds.”

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