---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1015"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1015"
heading: "“State” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1015"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Regulation of Insurance"
---

# §1015. “State” defined


As used in this chapter, the term “[State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2)” includes the several [States](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2), Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the District of Columbia.


## Source credit

(Mar. 9, 1945, ch. 20, § 5, 59 Stat. 34; Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 4, 70 Stat. 908.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1956—Act Aug. 1, 1956, included “Guam” in definition of State.

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Alaska and Hawaii to Statehood

Alaska was admitted into the Union on Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, and Hawaii was admitted into the Union on Aug. 21, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, Aug. 21, 1959, 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74. For Alaska Statehood Law, see Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. For Hawaii Statehood Law, see Pub. L. 86–3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 4, set out as a note preceding section 491 of Title 48.