§242q — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must create a Task Force on Aging Research. Each fiscal year the Task Force must recommend which aging research projects or types to do or support, which of those should get funding first, and how much money to ask for; it may share information about the research with health professionals and the public. "Aging research" is defined in another part of the law.

Title 42, §242q

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

(b)With respect to aging research (as defined in section 242q–4 11 See References in Text note below. 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)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