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title: "20 U.S.C. § 9404"
description: "Authorization and appropriation of funds"
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title_number: 20
title_name: "EDUCATION"
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chapter_name: "EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES"
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# 20 U.S.C. § 9404 - Authorization and appropriation of funds

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out this chapter—

(1) $750,000,000 for fiscal year 2001;

(2) $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;

(3) $1,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2003; and

(4) such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2004 and 2005.

(Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(1) [title VIII, § 805], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–82.)