---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 292p"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "292p"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/292p"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter V — Health Professions Education"
  - "Part A — Student Loans"
  - "Subpart i — insured health education assistance loans to graduate students"
---

# §292p. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **In general—** For fiscal year 1993 and subsequent fiscal years, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the adequacy of the student loan insurance account under this subpart and for the purpose of administering this subpart.
- (b) **Availability of sums—** Sums appropriated under [subsection (a)](#a) shall remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 720, as added Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102, Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 2011.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 720 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 293 of this title prior to the general revision of this subchapter by Pub. L. 102–408.