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[CITE: 42USC300u-4]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
         SUBCHAPTER XV--HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH PROMOTION
 
Sec. 300u-4. Status reports to President and Congress; study of 
        health education and preventive health services with respect to 
        insurance coverage
        
    (a) The Secretary shall, not later than two years after June 23, 
1976, and biannually thereafter, submit to the President for transmittal 
to Congress a report on the status of health information and health 
promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate 
use of health care. Each such report shall include--
        (1) a statement of the activities carried out under this 
    subchapter since the last report and the extent to which each such 
    activity achieves the purposes of this subchapter;
        (2) an assessment of the manpower resources needed to carry out 
    programs relating to health information and health promotion, 
    preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of 
    health care, and a statement describing the activities currently 
    being carried out under this subchapter designed to prepare teachers 
    and other manpower for such programs;
        (3) the goals and strategy formulated pursuant to section 
    300u(a)(1) of this title, the models and standards developed under 
    this subchapter, and the results of the study required by subsection 
    (b) of this section; and
        (4) such recommendations as the Secretary considers appropriate 
    for legislation respecting health information and health promotion, 
    preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use of 
    health care, including recommendations for revisions to and 
    extension of this subchapter.

    (b) The Secretary shall conduct a study of health education services 
and preventive health services to determine the coverage of such 
services under public and private health insurance programs, including 
the extent and nature of such coverage and the cost sharing requirements 
required by such programs for coverage of such services.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, Sec. 1705, as added Pub. L. 94-317, 
title I, Sec. 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 699; amended Pub. L. 104-66, 
title I, Sec. 1062(d), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 720.)


                               Amendments

    1995--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-66 substituted ``biannually'' for 
``annually'' in introductory provisions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 247b, 300u of this title.
