---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300cc–45"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300cc–45"
heading: "General provisions regarding Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300cc-45"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Research with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part D — Office of AIDS Research"
  - "Subpart iii — general provisions"
---

# §300cc–45. General provisions regarding Office

- (a) **Administrative support for Office—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health, shall provide administrative support and support [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office and shall ensure that such support takes maximum advantage of existing administrative structures at the [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the National Institutes of Health.
- (b) **Evaluation—** Not later than 5 years after June 10, 1993, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall conduct an evaluation to—
  - (1) determine the effect of this section on the planning and coordination of the AIDS research [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) at the institutes, centers and divisions of the National Institutes of Health;
  - (2) evaluate the extent to which this part has eliminated the duplication of administrative resources among such Institutes, centers and divisions; and
  - (3) provide recommendations concerning future alterations with respect to this part.
- (c) **Definitions—** For purposes of this part:
  - (1) The term “AIDS activities” means AIDS research and other activities that relate to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  - (2) The term “AIDS research” means research with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  - (3) The term “Office” means the Office of AIDS Research.
  - (4) The term “Plan” means the plan required in [section 300cc–40c(a)(1) of this title](/usc/42/300cc–40c.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, § 2359, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title XVIII, § 1803, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 198; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(b)(2)(F), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3693.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–482 substituted “Evaluation” for “Evaluation and report” in heading, struck out par. (1) designation before “Not later than”, redesignated subpars. (A) to (C) as pars. (1) to (3), respectively, and struck out heading and text of former par. (2). Text read as follows: “Not later than 1 year after the date on which the evaluation is commenced under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, a report concerning the results of such evaluation.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2007 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 109–482 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 a note under section 281 of this title.