---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300u–4"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300u–4"
heading: "Status reports to President and Congress; study of health education and preventive health services with respect to insurance coverage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300u-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XV — Health Information and Health Promotion"
---

# §300u–4. Status reports to President and Congress; study of health education and preventive health services with respect to insurance coverage

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall, not later than two years after June 23, 1976, and biannually thereafter, submit to the President for transmittal to Congress a report on the status of health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care. Each such report shall include—
  - (1) a statement of the activities carried out under this subchapter since the last report and the extent to which each such activity achieves the purposes of this subchapter;
  - (2) an assessment of the manpower resources needed to carry out [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) relating to health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care, and a statement describing the activities currently being carried out under this subchapter designed to prepare teachers and other manpower for such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4);
  - (3) the goals and strategy formulated pursuant to [section 300u(a)(1) of this title](/usc/42/300u.md?p=a-1), the models and standards developed under this subchapter, and the results of the study required by [subsection (b)](#b) of this section; and
  - (4) such recommendations as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) considers appropriate for legislation respecting health information and health promotion, preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), and education in the appropriate use of health care, including recommendations for revisions to and extension of this subchapter.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall conduct a study of health education [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) and preventive health [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to determine the coverage of such [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) under public and private health insurance [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), including the extent and nature of such coverage and the cost sharing requirements required by such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) for coverage of such [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1705, as added Pub. L. 94–317, title I, § 102, June 23, 1976, 90 Stat. 699; amended Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1062(d), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 720.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1995—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–66 substituted “bi­annually” for “annually” in introductory provisions.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which item 4 on page 96 identifies a reporting provision which, as subsequently amended, is contained in subsec. (a) of this section), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.