---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9004"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9004"
heading: "Waiver of matching funds requirement under the Women’s Business Center program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9004"
units:
  - "Chapter 116 — Coronavirus Economic Stabilization (cares Act)"
  - "Subchapter I — Keeping American Workers Paid and Employed"
---

# §9004. Waiver of matching funds requirement under the Women’s Business Center program


During the period beginning on March 27, 2020, and ending on June 30, 2021, the requirement relating to obtaining cash contributions from non-Federal sources under [section 656(c)(1) of this title](/usc/15/656.md?p=c-1) is waived for any recipient of assistance under such [section 656 of this title](/usc/15/656.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title I, § 1105, Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 297; Pub. L. 116–260, div. N, title III, § 345(a), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2051.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2020—Pub. L. 116–260 substituted “the period beginning on March 27, 2020, and ending on June 30, 2021” for “the 3-month period beginning on March 27, 2020”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2020 Amendment

Pub. L. 116–260, div. N, title III, § 345(b), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2051, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall be effective as if included in the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 281).”