Rescinding Portions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Title VI Regulations To Align With the Statutory Text and Conform to Executive Order 14281

What it does

By this rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services amends its regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) to remove provisions that impose or exemplify liability based on disparate impact. These amendments align the Department's regulations with the best reading of Title VI's statutory text, avoid constitutional concerns, reduce compliance costs and uncertainty for recipients, and serve the public interest. In addition, these revisions conform to Executive Order 14281.

The Health and Human Services Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

45 CFR 80

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Health and Human Services Department has published 11 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 13 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0945-AA29 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on July 24, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket HHS-OS-2025-0001 on Regulations.gov
• Title 45 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register