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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§285p–2 Office of Rural Mental Health Research

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 16— - national institute of mental health › § 285p–2

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an Office of Rural Mental Health Research inside the Institute. The Office will have a director picked by the Institute’s Director who has experience with rural mental health. The Secretary will use that director to carry out the Office’s work. The director must coordinate Health and Human Services research on mental health in rural areas and work with similar public and nonprofit programs. The director can study problems that are unique to or worse in rural places, test ways to improve services, and share the results. The Office can do the work itself or fund public or nonprofit groups by grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §285p–2

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

(a)There is established within the Institute an office to be known as the Office of Rural Mental Health Research (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Office”). The Office shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Director of such Institute from among individuals experienced or knowledgeable in the provision of mental health services in rural areas. The Secretary shall carry out the authorities established in this section acting through the Director of the Office.
(b)The Director of the Office, in consultation with the Director of the Institute and with the Director of the Office of Rural Health Policy, shall—
(1)coordinate the research activities of the Department of Health and Human Services as such activities relate to the mental health of residents of rural areas; and
(2)coordinate the activities of the Office with similar activities of public and nonprofit private entities.
(c)The Director of the Office may, with respect to the mental health of adults and children residing in rural areas—
(1)conduct research on conditions that are unique to the residents of rural areas, or more serious or prevalent in such residents;
(2)conduct research on improving the delivery of services in such areas; and
(3)disseminate information to appropriate public and nonprofit private entities.
(d)The Director of the Office may carry out the authorities established in subsection (c) directly and through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts with public or nonprofit private entities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 109–482 struck out heading and text of subsec. (e). Text read as follows: “Not later than February 1, 1993, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Director shall submit to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (of the House of Representatives), and to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources (of the Senate), a report describing the activities of the Office during the preceding fiscal year, including a summary of the activities of demonstration projects and a summary of evaluations of the projects.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2007 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–482 applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1992, with provision for programs providing financial assistance, see section 801(c), (d) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment note under section 236 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 285p–2

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73