42 USC 18501 - Exclusion of payments from State eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal public benefits

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§ 18501.

Exclusion of payments from State eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal public benefits

(a)

In general

(b)

Definitions

For purposes of this section:

(1)

Federal public benefit

The term “Federal public benefit” means—

(A)

any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States; and

(B)

any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.

(2)

State eugenics compensation program

(Pub. L. 114–241, § 2, Oct. 7, 2016, 130 Stat. 976.)

cite as: 42 USC 18501