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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§283a Annual Reporting to Increase Interagency Collaboration and Coordination

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part A — National Institutes of Health › § 283a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Every year the Director of the National Institutes of Health must send three reports: one to the Secretary of Health and Human Services about NIH work with other HHS agencies; one to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs listing every clinical trial registered that calendar year in the databank under section 282(i); and one to Congress describing how NIH and its agencies store and track human tissue samples. The first of these reports had to be sent not later than 1 year after January 15, 2007.

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Title 42, §283a

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(a)Collaboration with other HHS agencies
On an annual basis, the Director of NIH shall submit to the Secretary a report on the activities of the National Institutes of Health involving collaboration with other agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services.
(b)Clinical trials
Each calendar year, the Director of NIH shall submit to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs a report that identifies each clinical trial that is registered during such calendar year in the databank of information established under section 282(i) of this title.
(c)Human tissue samples
On an annual basis, the Director of NIH shall submit to the Congress a report that describes how the National Institutes of Health and its agencies store and track human tissue samples.
(d)First report
The first report under subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall be submitted not later than 1 year after January 15, 2007.

Legislative History

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 403A of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 403D and is classified to section 283a–3 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section 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 an

Effective Date

of 2007 Amendment note under section 281 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 283a

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110