Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 21 — Civil Rights
§ 1997g. Priorities for use of funds
Statutory text
It is the intent of Congress that deplorable conditions in institutions covered by this subchapter amounting to deprivations of rights protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States be corrected, not only by litigation as contemplated in this subchapter, but also by the voluntary good faith efforts of agencies of Federal, State, and local governments. It is the further intention of Congress that where Federal funds are available for use in improving such institutions, priority should be given to the correction or elimination of such unconstitutional or illegal conditions which may exist. It is not the intent of this provision to require the redirection of funds from one program to another or from one State to another.
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.
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
Pub. L. 96–247 § 9 · 94 Stat. 349
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1997g
(Pub. L. 96–247, § 9, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 354.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–247, § 9, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 354.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 9. PRIORITIES FOR USE OF FUNDS. (a) It is the intent of Congress that deplorable conditions in institutions covered by this Act amounting to deprivations of rights USC prec. title 1. protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States be corrected, not only by litigation as contemplated in this Act, but also by the voluntary good faith efforts of agencies of Federal, State, and local governments. It is the further intention of Congress that where Federal funds are available for use in improving such institutions, priority should be given to the correction or elimination of such unconstitutional or illegal conditions which may exist. It is not the intent of this provision to require the redirection of funds from one program to another or from one State to another.
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