---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9858k"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9858k"
heading: "Limitations on use of financial assistance for certain purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9858k"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter II–B — Child Care and Development Block Grant"
---

# §9858k. Limitations on use of financial assistance for certain purposes

- (a) **Sectarian purposes and activities—** No [financial assistance](/usc/42/9832.md?p=5) provided under this subchapter, pursuant to the choice of a [parent](/usc/42/9858n.md?p=10) under [section 9858c(c)(2)(A)(i)(I) of this title](/usc/42/9858c.md?p=c-2-A-i-I) or through any other grant or contract under the [State](/usc/42/9832.md?p=25) plan, shall be expended for any sectarian purpose or activity, including sectarian worship or instruction.
- (b) **Tuition—** With regard to services provided to students enrolled in grades 1 through 12, no [financial assistance](/usc/42/9832.md?p=5) provided under this subchapter shall be expended for—
  - (1) any services provided to such students during the regular school day;
  - (2) any services for which such students receive academic credit toward graduation; or
  - (3) any instructional services which supplant or duplicate the academic program of any public or private school.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 658M, as added Pub. L. 101–508, title V, § 5082(2), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388–244; amended Pub. L. 102–401, § 3(a), Oct. 7, 1992, 106 Stat. 1959; Pub. L. 102–586, § 8(c)(1), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5036.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–401 and Pub. L. 102–586 made identical technical corrections to directory language of Pub. L. 101–508, § 5082(2), which added this section.