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[CITE: 42USC283c]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                  Part A--National Institutes of Health
 
Sec. 283c. Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

    (a) There is established within the Office of the Director of NIH an 
office to be known as the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences 
Research (in this section referred to as the ``Office''). The Office 
shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Director of 
NIH.
    (b)(1) With respect to research on the relationship between human 
behavior and the development, treatment, and prevention of medical 
conditions, the Director of the Office shall--
        (A) coordinate research conducted or supported by the agencies 
    of the National Institutes of Health; and
        (B) identify projects of behavioral and social sciences research 
    that should be conducted or supported by the national research 
    institutes, and develop such projects in cooperation with such 
    institutes.

    (2) Research authorized under paragraph (1) includes research on 
teen pregnancy, infant mortality, violent behavior, suicide, and 
homelessness. Such research does not include neurobiological research, 
or research in which the behavior of an organism is observed for the 
purpose of determining activity at the cellular or molecular level.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 404A, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title II, Sec. 203(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 145.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 203(c) of Pub. L. 103-43 provided that: ``The amendment 
described in subsection (a) [enacting this section] is made upon the 
date of the enactment of this Act [June 10, 1993] and takes effect July 
1, 1993. Subsection (b) [107 Stat. 145] takes effect on such date.''
