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[CITE: 42USC274a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                        Part H--Organ Transplants
 
Sec. 274a. Scientific registry

    The Secretary shall, by grant or contract, develop and maintain a 
scientific registry of the recipients of organ transplants. The registry 
shall include such information respecting patients and transplant 
procedures as the Secretary deems necessary to an ongoing evaluation of 
the scientific and clinical status of organ transplantation. The 
Secretary shall prepare for inclusion in the report under section 274d 
of this title an analysis of information derived from the registry.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 373, as added Pub. L. 98-507, 
title II, Sec. 201, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2345; amended Pub. L. 100-
607, title IV, Sec. 404, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3116; Pub. L. 101-616, 
title I, Sec. 101(b), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3282.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 373 of act July 1, 1944, added by act Aug. 3, 1956, 
ch. 907, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 960, which related to a Board of Regents of 
National Library of Medicine, was renumbered section 383 and classified 
to section 277 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 3(b), Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 879.


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-616 struck out ``and bone marrow registry'' after 
``Scientific registry'' in section catchline and struck out subsec. (a) 
designation and subsec. (b) which directed establishment of bone marrow 
registry and authorized appropriations for fiscal years 1989 and 1990 
for such purpose.
    1988--Pub. L. 100-607 inserted ``and bone marrow registry'' in 
section catchline, designated existing text as subsec. (a), and added 
subsec. (b).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 274b of this title.
