---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 283a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "283a"
heading: "Annual reporting to increase interagency collaboration and coordination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/283a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part A — National Institutes of Health"
---

# §283a. Annual reporting to increase interagency collaboration and coordination

- (a) **Collaboration with other HHS agencies—** On an annual basis, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) a report on the activities of the National Institutes of Health involving collaboration with other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the Department of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).
- (b) **Clinical trials—** Each calendar year, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH shall submit to the Commissioner of Food and [Drugs](/usc/42/11851.md?p=4) a report that identifies each clinical trial that is registered during such calendar year in the databank of information established under [section 282(i) of this title](/usc/42/282.md?p=i).
- (c) **Human tissue samples—** On an annual basis, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH shall submit to the Congress a report that describes how the National Institutes of Health and its [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) store and track human tissue samples.
- (d) **First report—** The first report under subsections [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), and [(c)](#c) shall be submitted not later than 1 year after January 15, 2007.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 403A, as added Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(a)(3), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3691.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 403A of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 403D and is classified to section 283a–3 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as an Effective Date of 2007 Amendment note under section 281 of this title.