---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300bb–7"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300bb–7"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300bb-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XX — Requirements for Certain Group Health Plans for Certain State and Local Employees"
---

# §300bb–7. Enforcement


Any individual who is aggrieved by the failure of a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), political subdivision, or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or instrumentality thereof, to comply with the requirements of this subchapter may bring an action for appropriate equitable relief.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXII, § 2207, as added Pub. L. 99–272, title X, § 10003(a), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 236.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Continued Coverage of Costs of Pediatric Vaccine Under Certain Group Health Plans

Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13631(d), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 643, provided that: Requirement.—The requirement of this paragraph, with respect to a group health plan for plan years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 10, 1993], is that the group health plan not reduce its coverage of the costs of pediatric vaccines (as defined under section 1928(h)(6) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396s(h)(6)]) below the coverage it provided as of May 1, 1993. Enforcement.—For purposes of section 2207 of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 300bb–7], the requirement of paragraph (1) is deemed a requirement of title XXII of such Act [42 U.S.C. 300bb–1 et seq.].”