---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee–19"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee–19"
heading: "Prohibition against certain false statements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee-19"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part A — Formula Grants to States"
---

# §300ee–19. Prohibition against certain false statements

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) A person may not knowingly 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 amounts may be paid by a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) from payments received by the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 300ee–11(a) of this title](/usc/42/300ee–11.md?p=a).
  - (2) A person with knowledge of the occurrence of any event affecting the right of the person to receive any amounts from payments made to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under [section 300ee–11(a) of this title](/usc/42/300ee–11.md?p=a) may not conceal or fail to disclose any such event with the intent of fraudulently securing such amounts.
- (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 XXV, formerly title XV, § 2509, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3101; renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101–93, § 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 612.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2509 of act July 1, 1944, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts, see section 238h of this title.