42 U.S.C. § 300cc–1 — Requirement of expediting awards of grants and contracts for research

(a) In general: The Secretary must speed up giving out grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for research projects about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). This includes research projects that started on their own, without the government first asking for proposals. (b) Time limitations with respect to certain applications: (1) For programs described in (a), if an application is submitted in response to the Secretary's request for proposals: (A) the Secretary cannot approve it if it comes in after 3 months from when the request was issued; and (B) the Secretary must award it, or otherwise make a final decision on it, within 6 months after that 3-month period ends. (2) If the Secretary decides these deadlines aren't practical for a particular program, the Secretary may adjust them. (c) Requirements with respect to adjustments in time limitations: When the Secretary adjusts deadlines under (b)(2): (1) if the adjustment happens before the request for proposals goes out, the request itself must describe the new, adjusted deadlines; and (2) if the adjustment happens after the request for proposals already went out, the Secretary must publish a statement about the new deadlines and personally notify every applicant who submitted an application before the original 3-month period ended. (d) Annual reports to Congress: Except as (e) says otherwise, the Secretary must write an annual report, as part of a larger required report, that summarizes programs where the Secretary adjusted deadlines under (b)(2) — describing the new deadlines and the original request for proposals — and summarizes applications submitted under a program described in (b)(1) that had no deadline adjustment but that still weren't processed within the (b)(1) deadlines. (e) Quarterly reports for fiscal year 1989: For fiscal year 1989 only, the report described in (d) had to be written and sent at least every three months to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.