---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 247b–3a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "247b–3a"
heading: "Training and reports by the Health Resources and Services Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/247b-3a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part B — Federal-State Cooperation"
---

# §247b–3a. Training and reports by the Health Resources and Services Administration

- (a) **Training—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), acting through the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Health Resources and [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration and in collaboration with the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall conduct education and training [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for physicians and other [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1) regarding childhood lead poisoning, current screening and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) recommendations and requirements, and the scientific, medical, and public health basis for those policies.
- (b) **Report—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), acting through the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Health Resources and [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, annually shall report to Congress on the number of children who received [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) through health centers established under [section 254b of this title](/usc/42/254b.md) and received a blood lead screening test during the prior fiscal year, noting the percentage that such children represent as compared to all children who received [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) through such health centers.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each[^1] the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by “of”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XXV, § 2503, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1163; Pub. L. 108–173, title IX, § 900(e)(6)(E), Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2374.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Children’s Health Act of 2000, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

### Amendments

2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–173 substituted “Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services” for “Health Care Financing Administration”.