50 U.S.C. § 4220: Entitlements to eligible individuals

Subject to sections 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. 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. 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). the term “discretionary appropriations” has the meaning given that term in section 900(c)(7) of title 2 ; and the term “entitlement” means “spending authority” as defined in section 651(c)(2)(C) 1 of title 2. 1 See References in Text note below.