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[CITE: 42USC300ee-31]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXIII--PREVENTION OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
 
                  Part B--National Information Programs
 
Sec. 300ee-31. Availability of information to general public


(a) Comprehensive information plan

    The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, shall annually prepare a comprehensive 
plan, including a budget, for a National Acquired Immune Deficiency 
Syndrome Information Program. The plan shall contain provisions to 
implement the provisions of this subchapter. The Director shall submit 
such plan to the Secretary. The authority established in this subsection 
may not be construed to be the exclusive authority for the Director to 
carry out information activities with respect to acquired immune 
deficiency syndrome.

(b) Clearinghouse

    (1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, may establish a clearinghouse to make 
information concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome available to 
Federal agencies, States, public and private entities, and the general 
public.
    (2) The clearinghouse may conduct or support programs--
        (A) to develop and obtain educational materials, model 
    curricula, and methods directed toward reducing the transmission of 
    the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome;
        (B) to provide instruction and support for individuals who 
    provide instruction in methods and techniques of education relating 
    to the prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and 
    instruction in the use of the materials and curricula described in 
    subparagraph (A); and
        (C) to conduct, or to provide for the conduct of, the materials, 
    curricula, and methods described in paragraph (1) and the efficacy 
    of such materials, curricula, and methods in preventing infection 
    with the the \1\ etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency 
    syndrome.
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    \1\ So in original.
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(c) Toll-free telephone communications

    The Secretary shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of 
toll-free telephone communications to provide information to, and 
respond to queries from, the public concerning acquired immune 
deficiency syndrome. Such communications shall be available on a 24-hour 
basis.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, Sec. 2521, as 
added Pub. L. 100-607, title II, Sec. 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3102; 
renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101-93, Sec. 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 
Stat. 612; amended Pub. L. 102-531, title III, Sec. 312(d)(22), Oct. 27, 
1992, 106 Stat. 3505.)


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). Pub. L. 102-531 substituted ``Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention'' for ``Centers for Disease 
Control''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300ee-34 of this title.
