---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1397m–4"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1397m–4"
heading: "Report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1397m-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XX — Block Grants and Programs for Social Services and Elder Justice"
  - "Division B — Elder Justice"
  - "Part II — Programs To Promote Elder Justice"
---

# §1397m–4. Report


Not later than October 1, 2014, the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) shall submit to the [Elder Justice](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=6) Coordinating Council established under [section 1397k of this title](/usc/42/1397k.md), the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report—

- (1) compiling, summarizing, and analyzing the information contained in the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) reports submitted under subsections (b)(4) and (c)(4)[^1] of [section 1397m–1 of this title](/usc/42/1397m–1.md); and
- (2) containing such recommendations for legislative or administrative action as the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) determines to be appropriate.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XX, § 2045, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title VI, § 6703(a)(1)(C), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 797.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subsection (c)(4) of section 1397m–1 of this title, referred to in par. (1), was redesignated subsec. (c)(5) by Pub. L. 115–70, title V, § 501(3), Oct. 18, 2017, 131 Stat. 1215.