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[CITE: 42USC2000d-4a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                SUBCHAPTER V--FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 2000d-4a. ``Program or activity'' and ``program'' defined

    For the purposes of this subchapter, the term ``program or 
activity'' and the term ``program'' mean all of the operations of--
        (1)(A) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other 
    instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or
        (B) the entity of such State or local government that 
    distributes such assistance and each such department or agency (and 
    each other State or local government entity) to which the assistance 
    is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local 
    government;
        (2)(A) a college, university, or other postsecondary 
    institution, or a public system of higher education; or
        (B) a local educational agency (as defined in section 8801 of 
    title 20), system of vocational education, or other school system;
        (3)(A) an entire corporation, partnership, or other private 
    organization, or an entire sole proprietorship--
            (i) if assistance is extended to such corporation, 
        partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship as a 
        whole; or
            (ii) which is principally engaged in the business of 
        providing education, health care, housing, social services, or 
        parks and recreation; or

        (B) the entire plant or other comparable, geographically 
    separate facility to which Federal financial assistance is extended, 
    in the case of any other corporation, partnership, private 
    organization, or sole proprietorship; or
        (4) any other entity which is established by two or more of the 
    entities described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3);

any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance.

(Pub. L. 88-352, title VI, Sec. 606, as added Pub. L. 100-259, Sec. 6, 
Mar. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 31; amended Pub. L. 103-382, title III, 
Sec. 391(q), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4024.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Par. (2)(B). Pub. L. 103-382 substituted ``section 8801 of 
title 20'' for ``section 198(a)(10) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965''.


                         Exclusion From Coverage

    This section not to be construed to extend application of Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000a et seq.] to ultimate beneficiaries 
of Federal financial assistance excluded from coverage before Mar. 22, 
1988, see section 7 of Pub. L. 100-259, set out as a Construction note 
under section 1687 of Title 20, Education.


                           Abortion Neutrality

    This section not to be construed to force or require any individual 
or hospital or any other institution, program, or activity receiving 
Federal funds to perform or pay for an abortion, see section 8 of Pub. 
L. 100-259, set out as a note under section 1688 of Title 20, Education.
