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LegalText 42 U.S.C. § 300aa17 Subrogation us united_states_code code_section 42 THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 6A PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 300aa17 42 U.S.C. § 300aa17 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc42@119-100.zip /us/usc/t42/s300aa17 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-42/usc42.xml 8ff001fd08a28178ca6f8e283b53668ae31fe578c0e3d31c66e05c4d29bd8ee4 644321055a08eb1f260a6a3e31ac157fa024756abf612a9fd6857e7e400cf24e e475dccec0e234574d67fa33a8281738b59a668b1c94049e164989851f358cce 2026-07-04 official
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42 U.S.C. § 300aa17 - Subrogation

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(a) General rule Upon payment of compensation to any petitioner under the Program, the trust fund which has been established to provide such compensation shall be subrograted 11 So in original. Probably should be “subrogated”. to all rights of the petitioner with respect to the vaccine-related injury or death for which compensation was paid, except that the trust fund may not recover under such rights an amount greater than the amount of compensation paid to the petitioner.

(b) Disposition of amounts recovered Amounts recovered under subsection (a) shall be collected on behalf of, and deposited in, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund established under section 9510 of title 26.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXI, § 2117, as added Pub. L. 99660, title III, § 311(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3770; amended Pub. L. 100203, title IV, § 4307(7), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330225; Pub. L. 101239, title VI, § 6601(m)(2), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2291.)

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Editorial Notes

Amendments1989—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101239 substituted “the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund established under section 9510 of title 26” for “the trust fund which has been established to provide compensation under the Program”. 1987—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100203 struck out par. (1) designation before “Upon” and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: “In any case in which it deems such action appropriate, a district court of the United States may, after entry of a final judgment providing for compensation to be paid under section 300aa15 of this title for a vaccine-related injury or death, refer the record of such proceeding to the Secretary and the Attorney General with such recommendation as the court deems appropriate with respect to the investigation or commencement of a civil action by the Secretary under paragraph (1).”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1989 AmendmentFor applicability of amendments by Pub. L. 101239 to petitions filed after Dec. 19, 1989, petitions currently pending in which the evidentiary record is closed, and petitions currently pending in which the evidentiary record is not closed, with provision for an immediate suspension for 30 days of all pending cases, see section 6601(s)(1) of Pub. L. 101239, set out as a note under section 300aa10 of this title.