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

# §1997i. Disclaimer respecting standards of care


Provisions of this subchapter shall not authorize promulgation of regulations defining standards of care.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–247, § 11, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 354.)