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Whenever, by the health laws of any State, or by the regulations made pursuant thereto, any vessel arriving within a collection district of such State is prohibited from coming to...

There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President, suitable warehouses, with wharves and inclosures, where merchandise may be unladen and deposited, from...

Whenever the cargo of a vessel is unladen at some other place than the port of entry under sections 88 and 89 of this title, all the articles of such cargo shall be deposited, at...

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized, whenever a conformity to such quarantines and health laws requires it, and in respect to vessels subject thereto, to...

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The quarantines and other restraints established by the health laws of any State, respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound to, any port or district thereof, shall be duly...

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, at the request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to place gratuitously, at the disposal of the...

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There shall be established in the Department of Health and Human Services a bureau to be known as the Children's Bureau. ...

The Children's Bureau shall be under the direction of a chief, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The said bureau shall...

There shall be in the Children's Bureau, until otherwise provided for by law, an assistant chief, to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. ...

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to furnish sufficient quarters for the work of this bureau at an annual rental not to exceed $2,000. ...

When used in this chapter - (a) The term ''Service'' means the Public Health Service; (b) The term ''Surgeon General'' means the Surgeon General of the Public Health...

The Public Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Health under the supervision and direction of...

The Service shall consist of (1) the Office of the Surgeon General, (2) the National Institutes of Health, (3) the Bureau of Medical Services, and (FOOTNOTE 1) (4) the Bureau...

There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and, for the purpose of securing a reserve for duty in the Service in time of national emergency, a Reserve Corps....

The Surgeon General shall be appointed from the Regular Corps for a four-year term by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Surgeon General shall...

(a) Deputy Surgeon General The Surgeon General shall assign one commissioned officer from the Regular Corps to administer the Office of the Surgeon General, to act as...

(a) Grades of commissioned officers The Surgeon General, during the period of his appointment as such, shall be of the same grade as the Surgeon General of the Army; the...

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Graduates of colleges of osteopathy whose graduates are eligible for licensure to practice medicine or osteopathy in a majority of the States of the United States, or approved by...

(a) Commissioned officers of Regular and Reserve Corps; special pay for active duty; incentive special pay for Public Health Service nurses (1) Commissioned officers...

(a) Regulations In accordance with regulations of the President, commissioned officers of the Regular Corps and officers of the Reserve Corps on active duty may be granted...

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(a) Division of corps; basis of categories For the purpose of establishing eligibility of officers of the Regular Corps for promotions, the Surgeon General shall by ...

(a) Permanent or temporary promotions; examination Promotions of officers of the Regular Corps to any grade up to and including the director grade shall be either permanent ...

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Any medical officer of the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service who - (1)(A) was appointed to the assistant grade in the Regular Corps and whose service in such...

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(a) Commissioned officers of the Service or their surviving beneficiaries are entitled to all the rights, benefits, privileges, and immunities now or hereafter provided...

(a) Presentation of flag Upon the release of an officer of the commissioned corps of the Service from active commissioned service for retirement, the Secretary of Health and...

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(a) Other Government departments The Secretary is authorized, upon the request of the head of an executive department, to detail officers or employees of the Service to...

(a) Prescription by President: appointments, retirement, etc. The President shall from time to time prescribe regulations with respect to the appointment, promotion,...

In time of war, or of emergency proclaimed by the President, he may utilize the Service to such extent and in such manner as shall in his judgment promote the public interest....

(a) Appointment; purpose The Secretary may, without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and without regard to the provisions...

All appointments to advisory committees established to assist in implementing the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), the Mental Retardation Facilities and...

Subject to regulations, volunteer and uncompensated services may be accepted by the Secretary, or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human...

(a) Appointment; duties Within 120 days of July 29, 1975, the Secretary shall appoint and organize a National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (hereinafter in this...

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A service and supply fund of $250,000 is established, without fiscal year limitation, for the payment of salaries, travel, and other expenses necessary to the maintenance...

There is authorized to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $7,500,000 for the erection and equipment, for the use of the Public Health Service in carrying out the provisions of...

(a) Exclusiveness of remedy The remedy against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of title 28, or by alternative benefits provided by the United States...

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For the purpose of facilitating the administration of, and expediting the carrying out of the purposes of, the programs established by subchapters V, VI, and VII (FOOTNOTE 1) of...

(a) Establishment; composition; chairman There is established in the Department of Health and Human Services a board for the development of drugs (including biologics) and...

(a) Creation; number of members (1) There shall be in the Public Health Service a Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service, not to exceed 500 members. (2)...

(a) Acceptance by Secretary The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to accept on behalf of the United States gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise...

The Immigration and Naturalization Service may, by agreement of the heads of the departments concerned, permit the Public Health Service to use hospitals at immigration stations...

Money collected as provided by law for expenses incurred in the care and treatment of foreign seamen, and money received for the care and treatment of pay patients, including...

Appropriations available for traveling expenses of the Service shall be available for meeting the cost of preparation for burial and of transportation to the place of burial...

Appropriations to the Public Health Service available under this chapter for research, training, or demonstration project grants or for grants to expand existing treatment...

For the purpose of any reorganization under section 203 of this title, the Secretary, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is authorized to...

Appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this chapter shall be available for expenditure for personal services and rent at the seat of Government; books of...

Except as may be authorized by regulations of the President, the insignia and uniform of commissioned officers of the Service, or any distinctive part of such insignia or uniform,...

The Surgeon General shall transmit to the Secretary, for submission to the Congress, on January 1, 1995, and on January 1, every 2 years thereafter, a full report of...

The Secretary may provide for suitably acknowledging, within the Department (whether by memorials, designations, or other suitable acknowledgments), (1) efforts of persons who...

(a) In general Such portion as the Secretary shall determine, but not less than 0.2 percent nor more than 1 percent, of any amounts appropriated for programs authorized under...

The authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts under this chapter shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance...

(a) Right of United States to recover base amount plus interest If any facility with respect to which funds have been paid under the Community Mental Health Centers Act (42...

(a) Contracting authority The Secretary may enter into contracts with fiscal agents - (1)(A) to determine the amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of the Indian...

(a) In general The Federal Government, and any State or local government that receives Federal financial assistance, may not subject any health care entity to discrimination...

Appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this chapter shall not be used in a manner inconsistent with the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 14401...

(a) Guidelines on placement The Secretary shall establish guidelines with respect to placing automated external defibrillator devices in Federal buildings. Such guidelines...

(a) Good Samaritan protections regarding AEDs Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any person who uses or attempts to use an automated external defibrillator ...

(a) Authority of Secretary The Secretary shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities,...

(a) In carrying out the purposes of section 241 of this title with respect to drugs the use or misuse of which might result in drug abuse or dependency, the studies and...

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(a) Establishment; appointment of Director; statistical and epidemiological activities There is established in the Department of Health and Human Services the National...

(a) Cooperative endeavors; statement of purpose For the purpose of advancing the status of the health sciences in the United States (and thereby the health of the American people), ...

(a) Reports to Congress and President; preparation; review by Office of Management and Budget (1) Not later than March 15 of each year, the Secretary shall submit to...

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(a) A conference of the health authorities in and among the several States shall be called annually by the Secretary. Whenever in his opinion the interests of the public health...

(a) The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, shall submit to Congress on March 15, 1990, and on March 15 of every third year thereafter, a...

(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...

(a) Composition The Task Force shall be composed of - (1) the Assistant Secretary for Health; (2) the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; (3)...

The Secretary, acting through either the Assistant Secretary for Health or the Director of the National Institute on Aging, shall appoint an Executive Secretary for the Task Force...

(a) In general Not later than 1 year after November 15, 1990, and annually thereafter, the Task Force shall prepare and submit to the Secretary, and to the Committee on Energy...

For purposes of sections 242q to 242q-5 of this title: (1) Aging research (A) The term ''aging research'' means research on the aging process and on the diagnosis...

For the purpose of carrying out sections 242q to 242q-5 of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1991...

(a) Enforcement of quarantine regulations; prevention of communicable diseases The Secretary is authorized to accept from State and local authorities any assistance in...

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For the purpose of facilitating the economical and efficient conduct of operations in the Bureau of State Services which are financed by two or more appropriations where the costs...

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(a) Establishment; priorities Subject to available appropriations, the Secretary, acting through the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Health,...

(a) Grant authority The Secretary may make grants to States, and in consultation with State health authorities, to political subdivisions of States and to other public entities...

(a) Authority for grants (1) In general Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may ...

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(a) Prevention (1) Public education The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out a program to ...

(a) Training The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and in collaboration with...

(a) In general (1) National Center There is established within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a center to be known as the National Center on Birth ...

(a) Definitions For the purposes of this section only, the following terms in this section are defined as follows: (1) Hearing screening Newborn and infant...

(a) National autism and pervasive developmental disabilities surveillance program (1) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section ...

(a) In general The Secretary shall establish and implement a program to provide information and education on autism to health professionals and the general public,...

(a) Establishment The Secretary shall establish a committee to be known as the ''Autism Coordinating Committee'' (in this section referred to as the ''Committee'') to...

Not later than January 1, 2001, and each January 1 thereafter, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress, a report concerning the...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States and local health departments for the...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States, political subdivisions, and other...

(a) In general (1) Authority Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may carry out a program of entering into contracts with appropriately qualified health ...

The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish fellowship and training programs to be conducted by such Centers...

(a) Surveillance on juvenile diabetes The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop a sentinel system to collect...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall - (1) conduct local asthma surveillance activities...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand and intensify programs (directly or through grants...

(a) Surveillance (1) Purpose The purpose of this subsection is to develop surveillance systems at the local, State, and national level to better understand the...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out programs - (1) to collect, analyze, and...

(a) Grants to increase resources for community water fluoridation (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control...

(a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Indian Health Service, and in consultation with the...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may (directly and through grants to public and nonprofit...

(a) Authority to make grants (1) In general The Secretary shall make grants to States to support public health activities in States and localities where data suggests ...

(a) Surveillance (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall - (A) enter into cooperative agreements...

(a) Technical assistance to public and nonprofit private entities and scientific institutions The Secretary may provide technical assistance to appropriate public...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, and...

For the purpose of collecting and providing data for program planning and evaluation activities under subchapter XXIV of this chapter, there are authorized to be appropriated to...

(a) Emergencies If the Secretary determines, after consultation with such public health officials as may be necessary, that - (1) a disease or disorder presents a...

(a) Capacities (1) In general Not later than 1 year after November 13, 2000, the Secretary, and such Administrators, Directors, or Commissioners, as may be ...

(a) Program authorized Not later than 1 year after November 13, 2000, and every 10 years thereafter, the Secretary shall award grants to States, or consortia of two or more...

(a) Program authorized The Secretary shall award competitive grants to eligible entities to address core public health capacity needs using the capacities developed under...

(a) Findings Congress finds that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have an essential role in defending against and combatting public health threats of the...

(a) Task force (1) In general The Secretary shall establish an Antimicrobial Resistance Task Force to provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary and ...

(a) Working group on preparedness for acts of bioterrorism The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall establish a joint interdepartmental working group on ...

(a) In general The Secretary shall make grants to not more than three eligible entities to carry out demonstration programs to improve the detection of pathogens likely to be...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall establish a program to fund innovative oral...

(a) Care and treatment (1) At or through the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center (located in the State of Louisiana), the Secretary shall without charge provide short-term...

The Surgeon General, pursuant to regulations, shall - (a) Control, manage, and operate all institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service, including minor repairs...

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take such action as may be necessary to assure that the hospitals of...

(a) Deadline for closure, transfer, or financial self-sufficiency The Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the ''Secretary'') shall,...

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(a) Persons entitled to treatment Any person when detained in accordance with quarantine laws, or, at the request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, any ...

The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by section 4005 of...

The Attorney General may transfer to the Health Resources and Services Administration such amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures by that Administration for...

(a) The Surgeon General is authorized to provide at institutions, hospitals, and station of the Service medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for persons entitled...

The Surgeon General shall provide for making, at places within the United States or in other countries, such physical and mental examinations of aliens as are required by...

(a) Persons entitled to medical services Subject to regulations of the President - (1) commissioned officers, chief warrant officers, warrant officers, cadets, and...

(a) Eligibility Subject to regulations of the President, retired ships' officers and retired members of the crews of vessels of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Subject to regulations of the President, lightkeepers, assistant lightkeepers, and officers and crews of vessels of the former Lighthouse Service, including any such persons...

Nothing contained in this part shall affect the authority of the Service to furnish any materials, supplies, or equipment, or perform any work of services, requested in...

(a) Definitions For purposes of this section - (1) the term ''specialized health resources'' means health care resources (whether equipment, space, or personnel)...

(a) ''Health center'' defined (1) In general For purposes of this section, the term ''health center'' means an entity that serves a population that is...

(a) Administration The rural health services outreach demonstration grant program established under section 241 of this title shall be administered by the Office of Rural...

(a) Grants The Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereafter in this section referred to as the ''Secretary'') shall provide grants to, or enter into contracts with, public...

(a) In general The Secretary, directly or through grants, shall provide for research into the prevention and cure of Type (FOOTNOTE 1) I diabetes. (FOOTNOTE 1) So...

(a) In general The Secretary shall make grants for providing services for the prevention and treatment of diabetes in accordance with subsection (b) of this section. ...

(a) In general The Secretary, acting through the appropriate agencies of the Public Health Service, shall make grants to public or nonprofit private entities for the...

(a) National public health campaign (1) In general The Secretary shall develop and implement public health surveillance, education, research, and intervention strategies...

(a) Infant adoption awareness (1) In general The Secretary shall make grants to national, regional, or local adoption organizations for the purpose of developing and ...

(a) Special needs adoption awareness campaign (1) In general The Secretary shall, through making grants to nonprofit private entities, provide for the planning,...

(a) In general (1) Continuation and expansion of program The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal...

(a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall in accordance with sections 254c-9 to 254c-13 of this title make grants to provide for projects for...

A grant may be made under section 254c-9 of this title only if the applicant involved makes the following agreements: (1) Not more than 5 percent of the grant will be used for ...

The Secretary may provide technical assistance to assist entities in complying with the requirements of sections 254c-9 to 254c-13 of this title in order to make such...

For purposes of sections 254c-9 to 254c-13 of this title: (1) Official poverty line The term ''official poverty line'' means the poverty line established by the...

For the purpose of carrying out sections 254c-9 to 254c-13 of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years...

(a) Establishment; composition; purpose; definitions (1) For the purpose of eliminating health manpower shortages in health professional shortage areas, there is established, within ...

(a) Designation by Secretary; removal from areas designated; ''medical facility'' defined (1) For purposes of this subpart the term ''health professional shortage area''...

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