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title: "42 U.S.C. § 1397n–8"
description: "No Federal funding for credit enhancements"
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title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 1397n–8 - No Federal funding for credit enhancements

## Text

No amount made available to carry out this division may be used to provide any insurance, guarantee, or other credit enhancement to a State or local government under which a Federal payment would be made to a State or local government as the result of a State or local government failing to achieve an outcome specified in an agreement.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XX, § 2059, as added Pub. L. 115–123, div. E, title VIII, § 50802(2), Feb. 9, 2018, 132 Stat. 281.)