Sec. 226.
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Termination.—Effective October 1, 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is terminated. Activities in connection with termination.— In general.—The Secretary— shall take such actions as may be necessary for orderly termination of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which may include, notwithstanding subsection (c), the provision of fiscal year 2016 continuation funding for Agency grants; and to support such actions, shall use discretionary amounts made available by this Act for accounts of HHS, to be derived on a proportional basis from all such accounts.
Unobligated balances.—Any unobligated balances of funds appropriated to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality are hereby rescinded. Activities by other agencies.—An agency may carry out an activity that, on the date of the enactment of this Act, is being carried out by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality only if— the agency has authority to carry out such activity under other provisions of law; the head of such agency determines that such activity— incorporates high-quality activities that support the mission of the agency; and does not expand the authority of such agency or duplicate ongoing efforts of such agency; and the activity relates to— in the case of the NIH, biomedical research; in the case of the CDC, disease control and prevention activities; in the case of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, health information technology activities; and in the case of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, patient safety activities.
Transfer of Preventive Services Task Force.—Subsection
(a)of section 915 of the PHS Act ( 42 U.S.C. 299b–4 )— is amended to read as such subsection was in effect on March 1, 2010; is further amended— in paragraph (1), by striking The Director and inserting The Assistant Secretary for Health ; and in paragraph (2)— by striking agency and inserting assistant Secretary ; and by striking The Agency and inserting The Assistant Secretary for Health ; is redesignated as subsection (n); and is transferred to the end of section 317 of the PHS Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247b ).
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