---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 242q"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "242q"
heading: "Task Force on Aging Research; establishment and duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/242q"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part A — Research and Investigations"
---

# §242q. Task Force on Aging Research; establishment and duties

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) shall establish a [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) on [Aging Research](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-A).
- (b) **Duties—** With respect to [aging research](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-A) (as defined in [section 242q–4](/usc/42/242q–4.md)[^1] of this title), the [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) each fiscal year shall—
  - (1) make recommendations to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) specifying the particular [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) of research, or the particular categories of research, that should be conducted or supported by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c);
  - (2) of the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) specified under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), make recommendations to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) that should be given priority in the provision of funds; and
  - (3) make recommendations to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of the amount of funds that should be appropriated for such research.
- (c) **Provision of information to public—** The [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) may make available to health professionals, and to other members of the public, information regarding the research described in [subsection (b)](#b).

## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–557, title III, § 301, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2768.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 242q–4 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “section 305”, meaning section 305 of Pub. L. 101–557. Section 305 was renumbered section 304 by Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(b)(3)(B), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3694.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Home Health Care and Alzheimer’s Disease Amendments of 1990, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.