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[CITE: 42USC300c-12]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
SUBCHAPTER IX--GENETIC DISEASES, HEMOPHILIA PROGRAMS, AND SUDDEN INFANT 
                             DEATH SYNDROME
 
                  Part B--Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
 
Sec. 300c-12. Sudden infant death syndrome research and research 
        reports
        

(a) Adequate amounts for identification and prevention progress

    From the sums appropriated to the National Institute of Child Health 
and Human Development, the Secretary shall assure that there are applied 
to research of the type described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
subsection (b)(1) of this section such amounts each year as will be 
adequate, given the leads and findings then available from such 
research, in order to make maximum feasible progress toward 
identification of infants at risk of sudden infant death syndrome and 
prevention of sudden infant death syndrome.

(b) Reports to Congressional committees; contents: data as to 
        applications and funds for specific and general research, 
        summary of findings and plan for taking advantage of research 
        leads and findings

    (1) Not later than ninety days after the close of the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1979, and of each fiscal year thereafter, the 
Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives, the Committee on Labor and Human 
Resources of the Senate, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives specific information for such fiscal year on--
        (A) the (i) number of applications approved by the Secretary in 
    the fiscal year reported on for grants and contracts under this 
    chapter for research which relates specifically to sudden infant 
    death syndrome, (ii) total amount requested under such applications, 
    (iii) number of such applications for which funds were provided in 
    such fiscal year, and (iv) total amount of such funds; and
        (B) the (i) number of applications approved by the Secretary in 
    such fiscal year for grants and contracts under this chapter for 
    research which relates generally to sudden infant death syndrome, 
    including high-risk pregnancy and high-risk infancy research which 
    directly relates to sudden infant death syndrome, (ii) relationship 
    of the high-risk pregnancy and high-risk infancy research to sudden 
    infant death syndrome, (iii) total amount requested under such 
    applications, (iv) number of such applications for which funds were 
    provided in such fiscal year, and (v) total amount of such funds.

    (2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection 
shall--
        (A) contain a summary of the findings of intramural and 
    extramural research supported by the National Institute of Child 
    Health and Human Development relating to sudden infant death 
    syndrome as described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph 
    (1), and the plan of such Institute for taking maximum advantage of 
    such research leads and findings; and
        (B) provide an estimate of the need for additional funds over 
    each of the next five fiscal years for grants and contracts under 
    this chapter for research activities described in such 
    subparagraphs.

(c) Reports to Congressional committees; current and past estimates for 
        research

    Within five days after the Budget is transmitted by the President to 
the Congress for each fiscal year after fiscal year 1980, the Secretary 
shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of 
the Senate, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives an estimate of the amounts requested for the National 
Institute of Child Health and Human Development and any other Institutes 
of the National Institutes of Health, respectively, for research 
relating to sudden infant death syndrome as described in subparagraphs 
(A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1) of this section, and a comparison of 
such amounts with the amounts requested for the preceding fiscal year.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XI, Sec. 1122, as added Pub. L. 96-142, 
title II, Sec. 202, Dec. 12, 1979, 93 Stat. 1072; amended Pub. L. 99-
158, Sec. 3(a)(6), Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 879; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 15(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4591.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsecs. (b)(1), (c). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Energy and 
Commerce'' for ``Interstate and Foreign Commerce''.
    1985--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-158 struck out ``under section 289d of 
this title'' before ``, the Secretary''.

                         Change of Name

    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.
