---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290n–1"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290n–1"
heading: "Duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290n-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXIX — United States-Mexico Border Health Commission"
---

# §290n–1. Duties


It should be the duty of the [Commission](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=1)—

- (1) to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment in the [United States-Mexico Border Area](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=4) for the purposes of identifying, evaluating, preventing, and resolving [health problems](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=2) and potential [health problems](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=2) that affect the general population of the area; and
- (2) to implement the actions recommended by the needs assessment through—
  - (A) assisting in the coordination and implementation of the efforts of public and private entities to prevent and resolve such [health problems](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=2), and
  - (B) assisting in the coordination and implementation of efforts of public and private entities to educate such population, in a culturally competent manner, concerning such [health problems](/usc/22/290n–6.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–400, § 3, Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4169; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(4) [title V, § 516(2)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–276.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1999—Par. (1). Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(4) [title V, § 516(2)(A)], substituted “; and” for semicolon at end.

Par. (2)(B). Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(4) [title V, § 516(2)(B)], substituted period for “; and” at end.

Par. (3). Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(4) [title V, § 516(2)(C)], struck out par. (3) which read as follows: “to formulate recommendations to the Governments of the United States and Mexico concerning a fair and reasonable method by which the government of one country could reimburse a public or private entity in the other country for the cost of a health care service that the entity furnishes to a citizen of the first country who is unable, through insurance or otherwise, to pay for the service.”