---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12375"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12375"
heading: "Report of Conference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12375"
units:
  - "Chapter 127 — Coordinated Services for Children, Youth, and Families"
  - "Subchapter II — White House Conference on Children, Youth, and Families"
---

# §12375. Report of Conference

- (a) **Proposed report—** A proposed report of the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1) which shall include a statement of comprehensive coherent national policy on children, [youth](/usc/42/12376.md?p=2), and families together with recommendations for the implementation of such policy, shall be published and submitted to the chief executive officers of the [States](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5) not later than 180 days following the date on which the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1) is adjourned. The findings and recommendations included in the published proposed report shall be available immediately to the public.
- (b) **Response to proposed report—** The chief executive officers of the [States](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5), after reviewing and soliciting recommendations and comments on the proposed report of the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1), shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/12302.md?p=4), not later than 180 days after receiving such report, their views and findings on the recommendations of the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1).
- (c) **Final report—** Not later than 180 days after submission of the views and comments of the chief executive officers of the [States](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5), the [Secretary](/usc/42/12302.md?p=4) shall—
  - (1) prepare a final report on the [conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1), which shall include—
    - (A) a statement of the policy and recommendations of the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1);
    - (B) the views and comments of the chief executive officers of the [States](/usc/42/12302.md?p=5); and
    - (C) the recommendations of the [Secretary](/usc/42/12302.md?p=4), after taking into consideration the views and comments of such officers, for administrative and legislative action necessary to implement the recommendations of the [Conference](/usc/42/12376.md?p=1); and
  - (2) publish and transmit such report to the President and the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and chairman of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–501, title IX, § 986, Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1282.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Education and Labor of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Education and the Workforce of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999.

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1990, see section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 101–501, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under section 8621 of this title.