---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ee–31"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ee–31"
heading: "Availability of information to general public"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ee-31"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Prevention of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part B — National Information Programs"
---

# §300ee–31. Availability of information to general public

- (a) **Comprehensive information plan—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall annually prepare a comprehensive plan, including a budget, for a National Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Information [Program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4). The plan shall contain provisions to implement the provisions of this subchapter. The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall submit such plan to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c). The authority established in this subsection may not be construed to be the exclusive authority for the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) to carry out information activities with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- (b) **Clearinghouse—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may establish a clearinghouse to make information concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome available to Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), public and private entities, and the general public.
  - (2) The clearinghouse may conduct or support [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4)—
    - (A) to develop and obtain educational materials, model curricula, and methods directed toward reducing the transmission of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome;
    - (B) to provide instruction and support for individuals who provide instruction in methods and techniques of education relating to the prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and instruction in the use of the materials and curricula described in [subparagraph (A)](#b-2-A); and
    - (C) to conduct, or to provide for the conduct of, the materials, curricula, and methods described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) and the efficacy of such materials, curricula, and methods in preventing infection with the the[^1] etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- (c) **Toll-free telephone communications—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of toll-free telephone communications to provide information to, and respond to queries from, the public concerning acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Such communications shall be available on a 24-hour basis.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXV, formerly title XV, § 2521, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 221, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3102; renumbered title XXV, Pub. L. 101–93, § 5(e)(1), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 612; amended Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(22), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”.