---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290kk–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290kk–2"
heading: "Limitations on use of funds for certain purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290kk-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part J — Services Provided Through Religious Organizations"
---

# §290kk–2. Limitations on use of funds for certain purposes


No funds provided under a designated [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) shall be expended for sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 596B, formerly § 583, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(7) [title I, § 144], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–622; renumbered § 596B, Pub. L. 119–44, title I, § 107(a)(2), Dec. 1, 2025, 139 Stat. 674.)