42 USC § 274a - Scientific registry

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s274a"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 274a - Scientific registry"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "274a"
section_name: "Scientific registry"
chapter_number: 6
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "H"
part_name: "Organ Transplants"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 373, as added Pub. L. 98–507, title II, § 201, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2345; amended Pub. L. 100–607, title IV, § 404, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3116; Pub. L. 101–616, title I, § 101(b), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3282.)"
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# § 274a. Scientific registry

section 274d of this title

The Secretary shall, by grant or contract, develop and maintain a scientific registry of the recipients of organ transplants. The registry shall include such information respecting patients and transplant procedures as the Secretary deems necessary to an ongoing evaluation of the scientific and clinical status of organ transplantation. The Secretary shall prepare for inclusion in the report under  an analysis of information derived from the registry.

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**Source Credit**: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 373, as added Pub. L. 98–507, title II, § 201, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2345; amended Pub. L. 100–607, title IV, § 404, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3116; Pub. L. 101–616, title I, § 101(b), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3282.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 373 of act , added by , , which related to a Board of Regents of National Library of Medicine, was renumbered section 383 and classified to , prior to repeal by , , .

### Amendments

1990— struck out “and bone marrow registry” after “Scientific registry” in section catchline and struck out subsec. (a) designation and subsec. (b) which directed establishment of bone marrow registry and authorized appropriations for fiscal years 1989 and 1990 for such purpose.

1988— inserted “and bone marrow registry” in section catchline, designated existing text as subsec. (a), and added subsec. (b).