42 U.S.C. § 242q: Task Force on Aging…

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must create a Task Force on Aging Research. Each fiscal year the Task Force must tell the Secretary which aging studies or research areas to support, which should get funding priority, and how much money is needed. It may share that research information with health workers and the public.

Title 42, §242q

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(a)Establishment

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a Task Force on Aging Research.

(b)Duties

With respect to aging research (as defined in section 242q–4 of this title), the Task Force each fiscal year shall—

(1)make recommendations to the Secretary specifying the particular projects of research, or the particular categories of research, that should be conducted or supported by the Secretary;

(2)of the projects specified under paragraph (1), make recommendations to the Secretary of the projects that should be given priority in the provision of funds; and

(3)make recommendations to the Secretary of the amount of funds that should be appropriated for such research.

(c)Provision of information to public

The Task Force may make available to health professionals, and to other members of the public, information regarding the research described in subsection (b).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 242q–4 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “section 305”, meaning section 305 of Pub. L. 101–557. section 305 was renumbered section 304 by Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(b)(3)(B), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3694. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Home Health Care and Alzheimer’s Disease

Amendments

of 1990, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

§242q Task Force on Aging Research; Establishment and Duties