---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1997d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1997d"
heading: "Prohibition of retaliation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1997d"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter I–A — Institutionalized Persons"
---

# §1997d. Prohibition of retaliation


No [person](/usc/42/1997.md?p=3) reporting conditions which may constitute a [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) under this subchapter shall be subjected to retaliation in any manner for so reporting.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–247, § 6, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 352.)