---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300d–20"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300d–20"
heading: "Prohibition against certain false statements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300d-20"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter X — Trauma Care"
  - "Part B — Formula Grants With Respect to Modifications of State Plans"
---

# §300d–20. Prohibition against certain false statements

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) **False statements or representations—** A person may not knowingly and willfully make or cause to be made any false statement or representation of a material fact in connection with the furnishing of items or [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for which payments may be made by a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) from amounts paid to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 300d–11(a) of this title](/usc/42/300d–11.md?p=a).
  - (2) **Concealing or failing to disclose information—** A person with knowledge of the occurrence of any event affecting the right of the person to receive any payments from amounts paid to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 300d–11(a) of this title](/usc/42/300d–11.md?p=a) may not conceal or fail to disclose any such event with the intent of fraudulently securing such amount.
- (b) **Criminal penalty for violation of prohibition—** Any person who violates a prohibition established in [subsection (a)](#a) may for each [violation](/usc/42/2000e–16a.md?p=c) be fined in accordance with [title 18](/usc/18.md), or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XII, § 1220, as added Pub. L. 101–590, § 3, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2925.)