---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285g–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285g–2"
heading: "Research on intellectual disabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285g-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 7 — eunice kennedy shriver national institute of child health and human development"
---

# §285g–2. Research on intellectual disabilities


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall conduct and support research and related activities into the causes, prevention, and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of intellectual disabilities.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 450, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856; amended Pub. L. 111–256, § 2(f)(3), Oct. 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 2644.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–256 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Director of the Institute shall conduct and support research and related activities into the causes, prevention, and treatment of mental retardation.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For meaning of references to an intellectual disability and to individuals with intellectual disabilities in provisions amended by section 2 of Pub. L. 111–256, see section 2(k) of Pub. L. 111–256, set out as a note under section 1400 of Title 20, Education.