---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 7120"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "7120"
heading: "Supplement, not supplant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/7120"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools"
  - "Subchapter IV — 21st Century Schools"
  - "Part A — Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants"
  - "Subpart 1 — student support and academic enrichment grants"
---

# §7120. Supplement, not supplant


Funds made available under this subpart shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be used for activities authorized under this subpart.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title IV, § 4110, as added Pub. L. 114–95, title IV, § 4101, Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1982.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 10, 2015, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as an Effective Date of 2015 Amendment note under section 6301 of this title.