---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 88.1"
title: "45"
number: "88.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/88.1"
---

# §88.1. Purpose.


The purpose of this part is to provide for the enforcement of the Church Amendments, [42 U.S.C. 300a-7](/usc/42/300a-7.md); the Coats-Snowe Amendment, section 245 of the Public Health Service Act, [42 U.S.C. 238n](/usc/42/238n.md); the Weldon Amendment, e.g., Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328, div. H, title V General Provisions, [section 507(d)(1)](/cfr/45/507.md?p=d-1) (Dec. 29, 2022); Sections [1303(b)(1)(A)](/cfr/45/1303.md?p=b-1-A), [(b)(4)](/cfr/45/1303.md?p=b-b-4), and [(c)(2)(A)](/cfr/45/1303.md?p=c-2-A), and [1411(b)(5)(A)](/cfr/45/1411.md?p=b-5-A), and [1553](/cfr/45/1553.md) of the ACA, 42 U.S.C. [18023(b)(1)(A)](/usc/42/18023.md?p=b-1-A), [(b)(4)](/usc/42/18023.md?p=b-b-4), and [(c)(2)(A)](/usc/42/18023.md?p=c-2-A), [18081(b)(5)(A)](/usc/42/18081.md?p=b-5-A), and [18113](/usc/42/18113.md); certain Medicare and Medicaid provisions, 42 U.S.C. [1320a-1(h)](/usc/42/1320a-1.md?p=h), [1320c-11](/usc/42/1320c-11.md), [1395i-5](/usc/42/1395i-5.md), [1395w-22(j)(3)(B)](/usc/42/1395w-22.md?p=j-3-B), [1395x(e)](/usc/42/1395x.md?p=e), [1395x(y)(1)](/usc/42/1395x.md?p=y-1), [1395cc(f)](/usc/42/1395cc.md?p=f), [1396a(a)](/usc/42/1396a.md?p=a), [1396a(w)(3)](/usc/42/1396a.md?p=w-3), [1396u-2(b)(3)(B)](/usc/42/1396u-2.md?p=b-3-B), [1397j-1(b)](/usc/42/1397j-1.md?p=b), and [14406](/usc/42/14406.md); the Helms, Biden, 1978, and 1985 Amendments, [22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)](/usc/22/2151b.md?p=f), accord, e.g., Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328, div. K, title VII, [section 7018](/cfr/45/7018.md) (Dec. 29, 2022); [22 U.S.C. 7631(d)](/usc/22/7631.md?p=d); 42 U.S.C. [280g-1(d)](/usc/42/280g-1.md?p=d), [290bb-36(f)](/usc/42/290bb-36.md?p=f), [1396f](/usc/42/1396f.md), [1396s(c)(2)(B)(ii)](/usc/42/1396s.md?p=c-2-B-ii); 5106i(a)); and [29 U.S.C. 669(a)(5)](/usc/29/669.md?p=a-5), referred to collectively as the “Federal health care conscience protection statutes.”


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 89 FR 2107, Jan. 11, 2024, unless otherwise noted.