---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290jj–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290jj–1"
heading: "Reporting requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290jj-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part I — Requirement Relating to the Rights of Residents of Certain Non-Medical, Community-Based Facilities for Children and Youth"
---

# §290jj–1. Reporting requirement


Each facility to which this part applies shall notify the appropriate [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) licensing or regulatory [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c)—

- (1) of each death that occurs at each such facility. A notification under this section shall include the name of the resident and shall be provided not later than 24 hours after the time of the individuals[^1] death; and
- (2) of the use of seclusion or restraints in accordance with [regulations](/usc/42/201.md?p=d) promulgated by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), in consultation with the [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “individual’s”.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 595A, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. B, title XXXII, § 3208, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1199.)