---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14405"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14405"
heading: "Restriction on use of other Federal funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14405"
units:
  - "Chapter 138 — Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction"
---

# §14405. Restriction on use of other Federal funds

- (a) **In general—** Subject to [section 14402(b) of this title](/usc/42/14402.md?p=b) (relating to [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of certain services) and [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, no funds appropriated by the Congress shall be used to provide, procure, furnish, or fund any item, good, benefit, activity, or service, furnished or performed for the purpose of causing, or assisting in causing, the suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of any individual.
- (b) **Nonduplication—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall not apply to funds to which section [14402](/usc/42/14402.md), [14403](/usc/42/14403.md), or [14404](/usc/42/14404.md) of this title applies, except that [subsection (a)](#a), rather than [section 14402 of this title](/usc/42/14402.md), shall apply to funds appropriated to carry out [title 10](/usc/10.md) (other than [chapter 55](/usc/42/chch55.md)), [title 18](/usc/18.md) (other than [section 4005(a)](/usc/42/4005.md)), and chapter 37 of title 28.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–12, § 6, Apr. 30, 1997, 111 Stat. 25.)