Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§18121 Implementation Funding

Title 42 › CHAPTER 157 — QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS › SUBCHAPTER VI — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 18121

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund inside the Department of Health and Human Services to run the Affordable Care Act and related laws. The Fund is given $1,000,000,000 from Treasury money not already set aside to pay federal administrative costs.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §18121

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general

There is hereby established a Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund (referred to in this section as the “Fund”) within the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and this Act (and the amendments made by such Acts).

(b)Funding

There is appropriated to the Fund, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000 for Federal administrative expenses to carry out such Act (and the amendments made by such Acts).

Legislative History

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References in Text

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 111–148, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 119. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 18001 of this title and Tables. This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 111–152, Mar. 30, 2010, 124 Stat. 1029, known as the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 2010 Amendment note under section 1305 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and not as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 18121

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110