<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id8fee67c7-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s17940"><num value="17940">§ 17940.</num><heading> Audits</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary shall provide for periodic audits to ensure that covered entities and business associates that are subject to the requirements of this subchapter and subparts C and E of part 164 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, as such provisions are in effect as of <date date="2009-02-17">February 17, 2009</date>, comply with such requirements.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id8fee67c8-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f">(<ref href="/us/pl/111/5/dA/tXIII/s13411">Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, § 13411</ref>, <date date="2009-02-17">Feb. 17, 2009</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/123/276">123 Stat. 276</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<heading class="centered smallCaps">References in Text</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle D (§ 13400 et seq.) of title XIII of div. A of <ref href="/us/pl/111/5">Pub. L. 111–5</ref>, <date date="2009-02-17">Feb. 17, 2009</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/123/258">123 Stat. 258</ref>, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of subtitle D to the Code, see Tables.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDate" id="id8fee8edb-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section effective 12 months after <date date="2009-02-17">Feb. 17, 2009</date>, except as otherwise specifically provided, see <ref href="/us/pl/111/5/s13423">section 13423 of Pub. L. 111–5</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t42/s17931">section 17931 of this title</ref>.</p>
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