---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 11712"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "11712"
heading: "Rule of construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/11712"
units:
  - "Chapter 122 — Native Hawaiian Health Care"
---

# §11712. Rule of construction


Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict the authority of the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) of Hawaii to license health practitioners.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–579, § 13, as added Pub. L. 102–396, title IX, § 9168, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1948.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section enacted by section 1 of S. 2681, One Hundred Second Congress, as passed by the Senate on Aug. 7, 1992, which was enacted into law by section 9168 of Pub. L. 102–396. Section 9168, which referred to S. 2681, as passed by the Senate on “September 12, 1992”, has been treated as referring to S. 2681, as passed by the Senate on Aug. 7, 1992, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.