42 U.S.C. § 242m
General provisions respecting effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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- 42 U.S.C. § 242m, General provisions respecting effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/475122
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Not later than March 15 of each year, the Secretary shall submit to the President and Congress the following reports:
The Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary to assure that statistics developed under sections 242b and 242k of this title are of high quality, timely, comprehensive as well as specific, standardized, and adequately analyzed and indexed, and shall publish, make available, and disseminate such statistics on as wide a basis as is practicable.
No information, if an establishment or person supplying the information or described in it is identifiable, obtained in the course of activities undertaken or supported under section 242b, 242k, or 242l of this title may be used for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was supplied unless such establishment or person has consented (as determined under regulations of the Secretary) to its use for such other purpose; and in the case of information obtained in the course of health statistical or epidemiological activities under section 242b or 242k of this title, such information may not be published or released in other form if the particular establishment or person supplying the information or described in it is identifiable unless such establishment or person has consented (as determined under regulations of the Secretary) to its publication or release in other form.
The amounts otherwise payable to any person under a grant or contract made under section 242b, 242k, or 242l of this title shall be reduced by—
Contracts may be entered into under section 242b or 242k of this title without regard to section 3324 of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Fiscal Year Adjustment ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978, the assistance programs for health services research; health statistics; comprehensive public health services; hypertension programs; migrant health; community health centers; medical libraries; cancer control programs; the National Cancer Institute; heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Research Service Awards; population research and voluntary family planning programs; sudden infant death syndrome; hemophilia; national health planning and development; and health resources development; to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to extend it through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978; to extend the assistance programs for home health services; and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Orphan Drug ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Amendments of 1983House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Public Health Service Amendments of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: 87–7
- Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Preventive Health Amendments of 1993House: 420–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998House: 303–102Senate: no recorded tally