42 USC § 3505d - National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse

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title: "42 USC § 3505d - National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "3505d"
section_name: "National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse"
chapter_number: 43
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 92–157, title II, § 202, Nov. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 461; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695; Pub. L. 101–597, title IV, § 401(d), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3035.)"
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# § 3505d. National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse

**(a)** **Establishment; function** There is established in the Department of Health and Human Services a National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse. It shall be the function of the Clearinghouse to provide information to, and maintain listings of, (1) communities and areas with health professional needs, and (2) prospective health workers interested in such opportunities.

**1** **Information and listing services available without charge** [^1]

Information and listing services performed by the Clearinghouse shall be provided free of charge to all interested health professionals and to all communities and groups within the areas determined by the Secretary under section 294n(f)  of this title to have a shortage of and need for health professionals.

See References in Text note below.

**(c)** **Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to establish, operate, and maintain the Clearinghouse created by subsection (a).

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 92–157, title II, § 202, Nov. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 461; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695; Pub. L. 101–597, title IV, § 401(d), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3035.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original a reference to section 741 of act . Section 741 of that Act was omitted in the general revision of subchapter V of this chapter by , , .  enacted a new section 776 of act , relating to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which was classified to  and was subsequently renumbered section 2692 and transferred to .

### Amendments

1990— substituted “National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse” for “National Health Manpower Shortage Clearinghouse” in section catchline and subsec. (a).

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Department of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (a) pursuant to , which is classified to , Education.