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§4220 Entitlements to Eligible Individuals

Title 50 › Chapter 52— RESTITUTION FOR WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS AND ALEUTS › Subchapter I— UNITED STATES CITIZENS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY AND RESIDENT JAPANESE ALIENS › § 4220

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting October 1, 1990, people who qualify under this part must receive the payments as entitlements. One exception: if a person is not of Japanese ancestry and only became eligible because of the Civil Liberties Act Amendments of 1992, their payment is not an entitlement and must be paid from discretionary appropriations. For fiscal year 1993 and each year after, money may be appropriated as needed to pay those discretionary payments. "Discretionary appropriations" means funds Congress approves each year. "Entitlement" means the kind of spending authority defined in other federal law.

Full Legal Text

Title 50, §4220

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(a)Subject to section 4214(e) and 4215(g) of this title and except as provided in subsection (b), beginning on October 1, 1990, the payments to be made to any eligible individual under the provisions of this subchapter shall be an entitlement.
(b)(1)Any such payment made to an individual who is not of Japanese ancestry and who is an eligible individual on the basis of the amendment made by section 3 of the Civil Liberties Act Amendments of 1992 shall not be an entitlement and shall be made from discretionary appropriations.
(2)There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1993 and each subsequent fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for the payments from discretionary appropriations described in paragraph (1).
(c)As used in this section—
(1)the term “discretionary appropriations” has the meaning given that term in section 900(c)(7) of title 2; and
(2)the term “entitlement” means “spending authority” as defined in section 651(c)(2)(C) 11 See References in Text note below. of title 2.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 3 of the Civil Liberties Act

Amendments

of 1992, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is section 3 of Pub. L. 102–371, which amended paragraph (2) of section 4218 of this title. section 651(c)(2)(C) of title 2, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), was repealed by Pub. L. 105–33, title X, § 10116(a)(3), Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 691. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1989b–9 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–371 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, inserted “and except as provided in subsection (b)” after “4215(g) of this title”, struck out “As used in this section, the term ‘entitlement’ means ‘spending authority’ as defined in section 651(c)(2)(C) of title 2.” after “shall be an entitlement.”, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

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Citation

50 U.S.C. § 4220

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60