---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19404"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19404"
heading: "Applicability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19404"
units:
  - "Chapter 164 — Speak Out Act"
---

# §19404. Applicability


This chapter shall apply with respect to a claim that is filed under Federal, [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), or Tribal law on or after December 7, 2022.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–224, § 5, Dec. 7, 2022, 136 Stat. 2292.)