---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300x–56"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300x–56"
heading: "Prohibitions regarding receipt of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300x-56"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Block Grants"
  - "Part B — Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use"
  - "Subpart iii — general provisions"
---

# §300x–56. Prohibitions regarding receipt of funds

- (a) **Establishment—**
  - (1) **Certain false statements and representations—** A person shall 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 a grant made to the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under section [300x](/usc/42/300x.md) or [300x–21](/usc/42/300x–21.md) of this title.
  - (2) **Concealing or failing to disclose certain events—** A person with knowledge of the occurrence of any event affecting the initial or continued right of the person to receive any payments from a grant made to a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) under section [300x](/usc/42/300x.md) or [300x–21](/usc/42/300x–21.md) of this title shall not conceal or fail to disclose any such event with an intent fraudulently to secure such payment either in a greater amount than is due or when no such amount is due.
- (b) **Criminal penalty for violation of prohibition—** Any person who violates any prohibition established in [subsection (a)](#a) shall 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 XIX, § 1946, as added Pub. L. 102–321, title II, § 203(a), July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 406.)