---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 283a–4"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "283a–4"
heading: "Notification to Director of personnel removed or disciplined for harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/283a-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part A — National Institutes of Health"
---

# §283a–4. Notification to Director of personnel removed or disciplined for harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health shall hereafter require institutions that receive funds through a grant or cooperative agreement during fiscal year 2022 and in future years to notify the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) when individuals identified as a principal investigator or as key personnel in an NIH notice of award are removed from their position or are otherwise disciplined due to concerns about harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions. The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) may issue [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) consistent with this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–103, div. H, title II, § 239, Mar. 15, 2022, 136 Stat. 474.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2022, and also as part of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.