§ 247a. Family support groups for Alzheimer’s disease patients

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1944

   Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986

   Pub. L. 99–319 title IV § 401 · 100 Stat. 478

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 247a

   July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 316, as added Pub. L. 99–319, title IV, § 401, May 23, 1986, 100 Stat. 489

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 316, as added Pub. L. 99–319, title IV, § 401, May 23, 1986, 100 Stat. 489

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 401. alzheimer’s disease Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act is 42 USC 243. amended by inserting before section 317 the following: “Sec. 316. “family support groups for alzheimer’s disease patients (a) Subject to available appropriations, the Secretary, 42 USC 247a. acting through the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Health, and the Administration on Aging, shall promote the establishment of family support groups to provide, without charge, educational, emotional, and practical support to assist individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or a related memory disorder and members of the families of such individuals. In promoting the establishment of such groups, the Secretary shall give priority to— “(1) university medical centers and other appropriate health care facilities which receive Federal funds from the Secretary and which conduct research on Alzheimer’s disease or provide services to individuals with such disease; and “(2) community-based programs which receive funds from the Secretary, acting through the Administration on Aging. “(b) The Secretary shall promote the establishment of a national network to coordinate the family support groups described in subsection (a). “(c) The Secretary shall report to Congress, not later than one Reports. year after the date of the enactment of this section, on family support groups and the network of such groups established pursuant to this section.”.

2. 1993

   National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993

   Pub. L. 103–43 title XX § 2008(a) · 107 Stat. 122

   Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 247a(c)

   Pub. L. 103–43 struck out subsec. (c) which read as follows: “The Secretary shall report to Congress, not later than one year after May 23, 1986, on family support groups and the network of such groups established pursuant to this section.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–43 struck out subsec. (c) which read as follows: “The Secretary shall report to Congress, not later than one year after May 23, 1986, on family support groups and the network of such groups established pursuant to this section.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Title III.— Section 316 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247a(c)) is amended by striking subsection (c).

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