Sec. 5. Scientific meetings
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Scientific meetings that are attended by scientific or medical personnel, or other professionals, of the Department of Health and Human Services for whom attendance at such meeting is directly related to their professional duties and the mission of the Department— shall not be considered conferences for the purposes of complying with Federal reporting requirements contained in annual appropriations Acts or in this section; and shall not be considered conferences for purposes of a restriction contained in an annual appropriations Act, based on Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M–12–12 or any other regulation restricting such travel.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt travel for scientific meetings from Federal regulations relating to travel. Each operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services shall prepare, and post on an Internet website of the operating division, an annual report on scientific meeting attendance and related travel spending for each fiscal year. Such report shall include— general information concerning the scientific meeting activities involved; information concerning the total amount expended for such meetings; a description of all such meetings that were attended by scientific or medical personnel, or other professionals, of each such operating division where the total amount expended by the operating division associated with each such meeting are in excess of $30,000, including— the total amount of meeting expenses incurred by the operating division for such meeting; the location of such meeting; the date of such meeting; a brief explanation on how such meeting advanced the mission of the operating division; and the total number of individuals whose travel expenses or other scientific meeting expenses were paid by the operating division; and with respect to any such meeting where the total expenses to the operating division exceeded $150,000, a description of the exceptional circumstances that necessitated the expenditure of such amounts.