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§300u–8 Biennial report regarding nutrition and health

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XV— - HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION › § 300u–8

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Secretary must have Surgeon General prepare biennial nutrition-and-health reports; may include recommendations. By February 1, 1995, and every second year thereafter, reports go to House Energy and Commerce Committee; Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.

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Title 42, §300u–8

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(a)The Secretary shall require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to prepare biennial reports on the relationship between nutrition and health. Such reports may, with respect to such relationship, include any recommendations of the Secretary and the Surgeon General.
(b)The Secretary shall ensure that, not later than February 1 of 1995 and of every second year thereafter, a report under subsection (a) is submitted to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 300u–8, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1709, as added Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title V, § 502, 92 Stat. 3594, related to establishment of national program on sports medicine research, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(c), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999. Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.

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42 U.S.C. § 300u–8

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73