---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 896"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "896"
heading: "Effect on State laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/896"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 42 — Extortionate Credit Transactions"
---

# §896. Effect on State laws


This chapter does not preempt any field of law with respect to which [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) legislation would be permissible in the absence of this chapter. No law of any [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) which would be valid in the absence of this chapter may be held invalid or inapplicable by virtue of the exist­ence of this chapter, and no [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c), agency, or instrumentality of any [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) may be deprived by virtue of this chapter of any jurisdiction over any offense over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–321, title II, § 202(a), May 29, 1968, 82 Stat. 162.)