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§283a–1 Annual Reporting to Prevent Fraud and Abuse

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part A — National Institutes of Health › § 283a–1

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of NIH must send a yearly report about whistleblower complaints to the HHS Inspector General, the HHS Secretary, the House committees on Energy and Commerce and on Appropriations, and the Senate committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and on Appropriations. The report must summarize NIH’s actions and, for every complaint pending in the year covered, say which NIH agencies were involved, the complaint’s current status, and how it has been resolved so far. The first report was due no later than 1 year after January 15, 2007.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §283a–1

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

(a)Whistleblower complaints
(1)In general
On an annual basis, the Director of NIH shall submit to the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary, the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report summarizing the activities of the National Institutes of Health relating to whistleblower complaints.
(2)Contents
For each whistleblower complaint pending during the year for which a report is submitted under this subsection, the report shall identify the following:
(A)Each agency of the National Institutes of Health involved.
(B)The status of the complaint.
(C)The resolution of the complaint to date.
(b)First report
The first report under subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than 1 year after January 15, 2007.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2016—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 114–255 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b), substituted “subsection (a)” for “subsections (a) and (b)”, and struck out former subsec. (b), which related to annual report by the Director of NIH on experts and consultants whose services were obtained by the National Institutes of Health or its agencies.

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–1

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110