---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 239h"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "239h"
heading: "Relationship to other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/239h"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions"
  - "Part C — Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection"
---

# §239h. Relationship to other laws


Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this part shall be construed to override or limit any rights an individual may have to seek compensation, benefits, or redress under any other provision of Federal or [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) law.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, § 269, as added Pub. L. 108–20, § 2, Apr. 30, 2003, 117 Stat. 645.)