42 U.S.C. § 300cc–31: Fellowships and training

Summary

The Secretary, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, must create fellowship and training programs at the CDC to teach people skills needed to prevent, diagnose, and treat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, in areas like epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, and lab work. The Secretary, through the National Institute of Mental Health, must also run or fund graduate and postgraduate fellowships to train researchers in the psychological and social aspects of AIDS. People in these fellowships must not be counted toward the Department of Health and Human Services’ limits on full‑time equivalent employees under any law before, on, or after November 4, 1988. Money needed to run these programs may be provided each fiscal year.

Title 42, §300cc–31

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(a)In general

The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish fellowship and training programs to be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, and laboratory analysis relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Such programs shall be designed to enable health professionals and health personnel trained under such programs to work, after receiving such training, in national and international efforts toward the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

(b)Programs conducted by National Institute of Mental Health

The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, shall conduct or support fellowship and training programs for individuals pursuing graduate or postgraduate study in order to train such individuals to conduct scientific research into the psychological and social sciences as such sciences relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

(c)Relationship to limitation on number of employees

Any individual receiving a fellowship or receiving training under subsection (a) or (b) shall not be included in any determination of the number of full-time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of any limitation on the number of such employees established by law prior to, on, or after November 4, 1988.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year.

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Amendments

1993—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–43 substituted “fiscal year” for “of the fiscal years 1989 through 1991”. 1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–531, which directed the substitution of “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”, was executed by making the substitution in two places to reflect the probable intent of Congress. 1988—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–690 substituted “date of the enactment of the AIDS

Amendments

of 1988” for “date of the enactment of the AIDS Federal Policy Act of 1988” which for purposes of codification was translated as “November 4, 1988”.

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Effective Date

of 1988 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–690 effective immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–607, which was approved Nov. 4, 1988, see section 2600 of Pub. L. 100–690, set out as a note under section 242m of this title.

§300cc–31 Fellowships and Training

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Title 42, §300cc–31

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