Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part E · Chapter 7 — Social Security
§ 678. Rule of construction
Statutory text
Nothing in this part shall be construed as precluding State courts from exercising their discretion to protect the health and safety of children in individual cases, including cases other than those described in section 671(a)(15)(D) of this title.
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.
Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
Pub. L. 105–89 title I § 101(d) · 111 Stat. 2115
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 678
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 478, as added Pub. L. 105–89, title I, § 101(d), Nov. 19, 1997, 111 Stat. 2117.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 478, as added Pub. L. 105–89, title I, § 101(d), Nov. 19, 1997, 111 Stat. 2117.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(d) Rule of Construction.—Part E of title IV of such Act (42 U.S.C. 670–679) is amended by inserting after section 477 the following: “SEC. 478. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. “Nothing in this part shall be construed as precluding State courts from exercising their discretion to protect the health and safety of children in individual cases, including cases other than those described in section 471(a)(15)(D).”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 678, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 478, as added , Pub. L. 99–514, title XVIII, § 1883(b)(10)(A), 100 Stat. 2917, excluded from AFDC unit child for whom foster care maintenance payments are made, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101–508, title V, § 5052(b), (c), , 104 Stat. 1388–228, applicable with respect to benefits for months beginning on or after the first day of the sixth calendar month following November 1990.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , except as otherwise provided, with delay permitted if State legislation is required, see section 501 of Pub. L. 105–89, set out as an Effective Date of 1997 Amendments note under section 622 of this title.
Credits
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 478, as added Pub. L. 105–89, title I, § 101(d), , 111 Stat. 2117.)