---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19055"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19055"
heading: "Social, behavioral, and economic sciences"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19055"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part E — Fundamental Research"
---

# §19055. Social, behavioral, and economic sciences


The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall—

- (1) actively communicate opportunities and solicit proposals for social, behavioral, and economic science researchers to participate in cross-cutting and interdisciplinary programs, including the Convergence Accelerator and [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) priority activities, and the Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure program; and
- (2) ensure social, behavioral, and economic science researchers are represented on relevant merit review panels for such activities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10346, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1560.)