---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12640"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12640"
heading: "Engagement of participants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12640"
units:
  - "Chapter 129 — National and Community Service"
  - "Subchapter I — National and Community Service State Grant Program"
  - "Division F — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §12640. Engagement of participants


A [State](/usc/42/12522.md?p=1) shall not engage a participant to serve in any [program](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) that receives assistance under this subchapter unless and until amounts have been appropriated under [section 12681 of this title](/usc/42/12681.md) for the provision of national service educational awards and for the payment of other necessary expenses and costs associated with such participant.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 180, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3166; Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 119, Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 866.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–82 substituted “national service educational awards” for “post-service benefits”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.