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[CITE: 42USC300aa-27]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                        SUBCHAPTER XIX--VACCINES
 
          Part 2--National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
 
  subpart c--assuring a safer childhood vaccination program in united 
                                 states
 
Sec. 300aa-27. Mandate for safer childhood vaccines


(a) General rule

    In the administration of this part and other pertinent laws under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary, the Secretary shall--
        (1) promote the development of childhood vaccines that result in 
    fewer and less serious adverse reactions than those vaccines on the 
    market on December 22, 1987, and promote the refinement of such 
    vaccines, and
        (2) make or assure improvements in, and otherwise use the 
    authorities of the Secretary with respect to, the licensing, 
    manufacturing, processing, testing, labeling, warning, use 
    instructions, distribution, storage, administration, field 
    surveillance, adverse reaction reporting, and recall of reactogenic 
    lots or batches, of vaccines, and research on vaccines, in order to 
    reduce the risks of adverse reactions to vaccines.

(b) Task force

    (1) The Secretary shall establish a task force on safer childhood 
vaccines which shall consist of the Director of the National Institutes 
of Health, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control.
    (2) The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall serve as 
chairman of the task force.
    (3) In consultation with the Advisory Commission on Childhood 
Vaccines, the task force shall prepare recommendations to the Secretary 
concerning implementation of the requirements of subsection (a) of this 
section.

(c) Report

    Within 2 years after December 22, 1987, and periodically thereafter, 
the Secretary shall prepare and transmit to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and 
Human Resources of the Senate a report describing the actions taken 
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section during the preceding 2-year 
period.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXI, Sec. 2127, as added Pub. L. 99-660, 
title III, Sec. 311(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3777; amended Pub. L. 
100-203, title IV, Sec. 4302(b)(1), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-221; 
Pub. L. 101-239, title VI, Sec. 6601(q), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2292.)

                          Codification

    In subsecs. (a)(1), (c), ``December 22, 1987'' substituted for ``the 
effective date of this subpart'' on authority of section 323 of Pub. L. 
99-660, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
300aa-1 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 101-239 added subsec. (b) and 
redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c).
    1987--Subsecs. (a)(1), (b). Pub. L. 100-203 substituted ``effective 
date of this subpart'' for ``effective date of this part''.

                         Change of Name

    Centers for Disease Control changed to Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention by Pub. L. 102-531, title III, Sec. 312, Oct. 27, 1992, 
106 Stat. 3504.
    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.


                    Effective Date of 1989 Amendment

    For applicability of amendments by Pub. L. 101-239 to petitions 
filed after Dec. 19, 1989, petitions currently pending in which the 
evidentiary record is closed, and petitions currently pending in which 
the evidentiary record is not closed, with provision for an immediate 
suspension for 30 days of all pending cases, see section 6601(s)(1) of 
Pub. L. 101-239, set out as a note under section 300aa-10 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300aa-19 of this title.
