---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4594"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4594"
heading: "Contract authority in appropriation Acts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4594"
units:
  - "Chapter 60 — Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Program"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §4594. Contract authority in appropriation Acts


The authority of the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) to enter into contracts under this chapter shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance by appropriation Acts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–616, title VI, § 604, as added Pub. L. 96–180, § 17, Jan. 2, 1980, 93 Stat. 1306.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–616, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1848, known as the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4541 of this title and Tables.