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on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on
HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention
and Treatment
Health Resources and Service
Administration (HRSA), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, this
notice announces that the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) Advisory
Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and
STD Prevention and Treatment will
hold a public meeting.
DATES: February 22, 2018, 2:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m. ET.
ADDRESSES: This teleconference meeting
will accommodate up to 100 attendees.
Parties may access the teleconference by
dialing 888–989–6421 and using
participant code 9874492. Participants
should call and connect 15-minutes
prior to the start of the meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anyone requesting information
regarding the CDC/HRSA Advisory
Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and
STD Prevention and Treatment should
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contact CDR Holly Berilla, Senior Public
Health Analyst, Division of Policy and
Data (DPD), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB),
HRSA, in one of three ways: (1) Mail a
request to CDR Holly Berilla, Senior
Public Health Analyst, HRSA/HAB/
DPD, 5600 Fishers Lane, 09N156,
Rockville, Maryland 20857; (2) call 301–
443–9965; or (3) send an email to
hberilla@hrsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CDC/
HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV,
Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and
Treatment was established under
Section 222 of the Public Health Service
(PHS) Act, [42 U.S.C. Section 217a], as
amended.
The purpose of the CDC/HRSA
Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral
Hepatitis and STD Prevention and
Treatment is to advise the Secretary,
HHS; the Director, CDC; and the
Administrator, HRSA regarding
objectives, strategies, policies, and
priorities for HIV, viral hepatitis, and
other STDs; prevention and treatment
efforts including surveillance of HIV
infection, AIDS, viral hepatitis, and
other STDs, and related behaviors;
epidemiologic, behavioral, health
services, and laboratory research on
HIV, viral hepatitis, and other STDs;
identification of policy issues related to
HIV/viral hepatitis/STD professional
eduction, patient healthcare delivery,
and prevention services; Agency
policies about prevention of HIV, viral
hepatitis and other STDs; treatment,
healthcare delivery, and research and
training; strategic issues influencing the
ability of CDC and HRSA to fulfill their
missions of providing prevention and
treatment services; programmatic efforts
to prevent and treat HIV, viral hepatitis,
and other STDs; and support to the
Agencies in their developoment of
responses to emerging health needs
related to HIV, viral hepatitis, and other
STDs. Information about the Committee
and the meeting agenda is available by
contacting CDR Holly Berilla at the
contact information above.
During the meeting, the CDC/HRSA
Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral
Hepatitis and STD Prevention and
Treatment will discuss workgroup
reports and updates, information
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regarding the National Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program Conference, and
Committee business-related items.
Agenda items are subject to change as
priorities dictate.
Due to the nature and time limitations
of the meeting, members of the public
will not have an opportunity to provide
oral comments, although written
comments may be submitted to CDR
Holly Berilla at the contact information
listed above at least 10 days prior to the
meeting. Individuals who need special
assistance should notify CDR Holly
Berilla at the contact information listed
above at least 10 days prior to the
meeting.
Amy McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive
Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Statement of Organization, Functions,
and Delegations of Authority
Office for Civil Rights, Office of
the Secretary, HHS.
SUMMARY: This notice establishes the
Conscience and Religious Freedom
Division in the Office for Civil Rights of
the Department of Health and Human
Services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with Executive Order 13798
Promoting Free Speech and Religious
Liberty (May 4, 2017), 82 FR 21675, and
the Attorney General’s Guidance on
Federal Law Protections for Religious
Liberty (October 6, 2017), Part A, Office
of the Secretary, Statement of
Organization, Functions, and
Delegations of Authority for the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), as last amended at 81
FR 95622 (December 28, 2016), is being
amended at Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR) to reflect the restructuring
of OCR as follows:
I. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), in the outline section
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B. Operations and Resources Division
(ATA)
C. Civil Rights Division (ATB)
D. Health Information Privacy Division
(ATC)
E. Conscience and Religious Freedom
Division (ATD)’’
at the beginning of the Chapter that
reads:
‘‘AT.00 Mission
AT.10 Organization
AT.20 Functions’’
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II. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), delete ‘‘Section AT.00
Mission’’ in its entirety and replace
with the following:
‘‘AT.00 Mission
OCR, a Staff Division of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), ensures that individuals receiving
services from HHS-funded programs are not
subject to unlawful discrimination; that
individuals and entities are free from
coercion and can exercise their conscience
and religious freedom rights; and that people
can trust the privacy, security, and
availability of their health information. By
rooting out invidious discrimination and
removing unlawful barriers to HHS-funded
services, OCR carries out the HHS mission of
improving the health and well-being of all
Americans and providing essential human
services. By ensuring individuals and
institutions can exercise their conscience and
religious freedom rights, OCR furthers justice
and tolerance in a pluralistic society. By
promoting the right to access health
information and protecting the privacy and
security of this information, OCR helps
empower people’s health care decisionmaking and helps ensure the integrity of the
health care system and thereby promotes
better health outcomes for the nation.
OCR accomplishes this by:
• Enforcing laws, investigating complaints,
conducting compliance reviews,
promulgating regulations, developing policy,
providing technical assistance, and engaging
in public education and outreach to ensure
understanding of and compliance with all the
laws OCR has authority over;
• Ensuring that recipients of HHS federal
financial assistance comply with federal civil
rights laws that prohibit discrimination on
the bases of race, color, national origin,
disability, age, sex, and religion;
• Ensuring that federal agencies, state and
local governments, health care providers,
health plans, and others comply with federal
laws guaranteeing the free exercise of
religious beliefs and moral convictions and
the right to be free from coercion in HHSconducted or funded programs; and
• Ensuring the practices of health care
providers, health plans, health care
clearinghouses, and their business associates
adhere to federal privacy, security, and
breach notification regulations under the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) through the
investigation of complaints, self-reports of
breaches, compliance reviews, and audits.’’
III. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), delete ‘‘Section AT.10
Organization’’ in its entirety and
replace with:
‘‘AT.10 Organization
A. Office of the Director (AT)
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IV. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), Section ‘‘AT.20
Functions’’ delete subsection ‘‘A.
Office of the Director (AT)’’ in its
entirety and replace with the
following:
‘‘A. Office of the Director (AT). The Director
is the Department’s chief officer and
adviser to the Secretary concerning
implementation of, compliance with,
and enforcement of civil rights and
conscience and religious freedom laws
applicable to HHS-funded or conducted
programs or activities, and privacy,
security, and breach notification rules
under HIPAA. The Director provides
leadership, priorities, guidance, and
supervision to OCR and is responsible
for its overall policy, programs, and
operations. The Director is also
responsible for representing the
Secretary and the Department, in
coordination and consultation with the
Assistant Secretary for Legislation,
before Congress and the Executive Office
of the President on matters relating to
civil rights, conscience and religious
freedom, and health information privacy
and for liaising with other federal
departments and agencies responsible for
similar or related matters.’’
V. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), Section ‘‘AT.20
Functions’’ at subsection ‘‘B.
Operations and Resources Division
(ATA)’’ add ‘‘, conscience and
religious freedom,’’ after ‘‘ORD is
responsible for responding to
stakeholder calls and triaging civil
rights.’’
VI. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), Section ‘‘AT.20
Functions’’ at subsection ‘‘C. Civil
Rights Division (ATB),’’ delete
‘‘original’’ after ‘‘on the basis of
race, color, national’’ and replace
with ‘‘origin’’ and delete ‘‘; the
Division also enforces provider
conscience laws’’ after ‘‘sex,
disability, and age.’’
VII. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil
Rights (OCR), Section ‘‘AT.20
Functions’’ add a new subsection E
as follows:
AT.20
*
Functions
*
*
*
*
‘‘E. Conscience and Religious Freedom
Division (ATD). The Conscience and
Religious Freedom Division (CRFD) is
headed by the Deputy Director for
Conscience and Religious Freedom, who
reports to the Director. The CRFD is
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responsible for OCR’s national
conscience and religious freedom
program, including enforcement of and
compliance with laws protecting
conscience and the free exercise of
religion and prohibiting coercion and
religious discrimination. These laws
include, but are not limited to, the
Church Amendments (42 U.S.C. 300a–7);
the Coats-Snowe Amendment (42 U.S.C.
238n); the Weldon Amendment (e.g.,
Pub. L. 115–31, Div. H, § 507(d) (2017));
Sections 1303(b)(4) and 1553 of the
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C.
18023(b)(4) and 18113, respectively); the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (42
U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.); the employment
religious nondiscrimination provisions
in the Public Telecommunications
Financing Act of 1978 (47 U.S.C. 398(b))
and the religious nondiscrimination
provisions in various block grant
authorizing statutes. The CRFD conducts
OCR’s nationwide enforcement and
compliance activities including
investigating and developing cases;
negotiating case resolution agreements;
developing enforcement and litigation
strategies; promulgating regulations,
policies, and guidance; and conducting
compliance reviews of covered entities
and HHS Operating and Staff Divisions,
in consultation with the HHS Center for
Faith-Based and Neighborhood
Partnerships, as appropriate. The CRFD
also identifies and designs conscience
and religious freedom-specific training
programs for Departmental staff,
provides subject-matter expertise for
public education and outreach activities
to stakeholders nationwide, and liaises
with, and provides conscience and
religious freedom technical assistance
and advisory services to, HHS Operating
and Staff Divisions, national advocacy,
beneficiary, and provider groups,
religious organizations, faith-based
organizations, and for profit and nonprofit organizations, state and local
governments, and to other federal
departments and agencies, including by
serving on intra- and interagency
workgroups.’’
VIII. Pending further delegations,
directives, or orders by the
Secretary or the OCR Director, all
delegations and redelegations of
authority to positions of the affected
organizations in effect prior to the
date of this notice shall continue in
effect in them or their successors,
provided they are consistent with
this reorganization.
Dated: December 7, 2017.
Eric D. Hargan,
Acting Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
AGENCY: Office for Civil Rights, Office of the Secretary, HHS.
SUMMARY: This notice establishes the Conscience and Religious Freedom
Division in the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and
Human Services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with Executive Order 13798
Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty (May 4, 2017), 82 FR 21675,
and the Attorney General's Guidance on Federal Law Protections for
Religious Liberty (October 6, 2017), Part A, Office of the Secretary,
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as last amended at
81 FR 95622 (December 28, 2016), is being amended at Chapter AT, Office
for Civil Rights (OCR) to reflect the restructuring of OCR as follows:
I. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in the outline
section
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at the beginning of the Chapter that reads:
``AT.00 Mission
AT.10 Organization
AT.20 Functions''
II. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), delete ``Section
AT.00 Mission'' in its entirety and replace with the following:
``AT.00 Mission
OCR, a Staff Division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), ensures that individuals receiving services from
HHS-funded programs are not subject to unlawful discrimination; that
individuals and entities are free from coercion and can exercise
their conscience and religious freedom rights; and that people can
trust the privacy, security, and availability of their health
information. By rooting out invidious discrimination and removing
unlawful barriers to HHS-funded services, OCR carries out the HHS
mission of improving the health and well-being of all Americans and
providing essential human services. By ensuring individuals and
institutions can exercise their conscience and religious freedom
rights, OCR furthers justice and tolerance in a pluralistic society.
By promoting the right to access health information and protecting
the privacy and security of this information, OCR helps empower
people's health care decision-making and helps ensure the integrity
of the health care system and thereby promotes better health
outcomes for the nation.
OCR accomplishes this by:
Enforcing laws, investigating complaints, conducting
compliance reviews, promulgating regulations, developing policy,
providing technical assistance, and engaging in public education and
outreach to ensure understanding of and compliance with all the laws
OCR has authority over;
Ensuring that recipients of HHS federal financial
assistance comply with federal civil rights laws that prohibit
discrimination on the bases of race, color, national origin,
disability, age, sex, and religion;
Ensuring that federal agencies, state and local
governments, health care providers, health plans, and others comply
with federal laws guaranteeing the free exercise of religious
beliefs and moral convictions and the right to be free from coercion
in HHS-conducted or funded programs; and
Ensuring the practices of health care providers, health
plans, health care clearinghouses, and their business associates
adhere to federal privacy, security, and breach notification
regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) through the investigation of complaints,
self-reports of breaches, compliance reviews, and audits.''
III. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), delete ``Section
AT.10 Organization'' in its entirety and replace with:
``AT.10 Organization
A. Office of the Director (AT)
B. Operations and Resources Division (ATA)
C. Civil Rights Division (ATB)
D. Health Information Privacy Division (ATC)
E. Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (ATD)''
IV. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Section ``AT.20
Functions'' delete subsection ``A. Office of the Director (AT)'' in its
entirety and replace with the following:
``A. Office of the Director (AT). The Director is the Department's
chief officer and adviser to the Secretary concerning implementation
of, compliance with, and enforcement of civil rights and conscience
and religious freedom laws applicable to HHS-funded or conducted
programs or activities, and privacy, security, and breach
notification rules under HIPAA. The Director provides leadership,
priorities, guidance, and supervision to OCR and is responsible for
its overall policy, programs, and operations. The Director is also
responsible for representing the Secretary and the Department, in
coordination and consultation with the Assistant Secretary for
Legislation, before Congress and the Executive Office of the
President on matters relating to civil rights, conscience and
religious freedom, and health information privacy and for liaising
with other federal departments and agencies responsible for similar
or related matters.''
V. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Section ``AT.20
Functions'' at subsection ``B. Operations and Resources Division
(ATA)'' add ``, conscience and religious freedom,'' after ``ORD is
responsible for responding to stakeholder calls and triaging civil
rights.''
VI. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Section ``AT.20
Functions'' at subsection ``C. Civil Rights Division (ATB),'' delete
``original'' after ``on the basis of race, color, national'' and
replace with ``origin'' and delete ``; the Division also enforces
provider conscience laws'' after ``sex, disability, and age.''
VII. Under Chapter AT, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Section ``AT.20
Functions'' add a new subsection E as follows:
AT.20 Functions
* * * * *
``E. Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (ATD). The Conscience
and Religious Freedom Division (CRFD) is headed by the Deputy
Director for Conscience and Religious Freedom, who reports to the
Director. The CRFD is responsible for OCR's national conscience and
religious freedom program, including enforcement of and compliance
with laws protecting conscience and the free exercise of religion
and prohibiting coercion and religious discrimination. These laws
include, but are not limited to, the Church Amendments (42 U.S.C.
300a-7); the Coats-Snowe Amendment (42 U.S.C. 238n); the Weldon
Amendment (e.g., Pub. L. 115-31, Div. H, Sec. 507(d) (2017));
Sections 1303(b)(4) and 1553 of the Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C.
18023(b)(4) and 18113, respectively); the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.); the employment religious
nondiscrimination provisions in the Public Telecommunications
Financing Act of 1978 (47 U.S.C. 398(b)) and the religious
nondiscrimination provisions in various block grant authorizing
statutes. The CRFD conducts OCR's nationwide enforcement and
compliance activities including investigating and developing cases;
negotiating case resolution agreements; developing enforcement and
litigation strategies; promulgating regulations, policies, and
guidance; and conducting compliance reviews of covered entities and
HHS Operating and Staff Divisions, in consultation with the HHS
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, as
appropriate. The CRFD also identifies and designs conscience and
religious freedom-specific training programs for Departmental staff,
provides subject-matter expertise for public education and outreach
activities to stakeholders nationwide, and liaises with, and
provides conscience and religious freedom technical assistance and
advisory services to, HHS Operating and Staff Divisions, national
advocacy, beneficiary, and provider groups, religious organizations,
faith-based organizations, and for profit and non-profit
organizations, state and local governments, and to other federal
departments and agencies, including by serving on intra- and
interagency workgroups.''
VIII. Pending further delegations, directives, or orders by the
Secretary or the OCR Director, all delegations and redelegations of
authority to positions of the affected organizations in effect prior to
the date of this notice shall continue in effect in them or their
successors, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.
Dated: December 7, 2017.
Eric D. Hargan,
Acting Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2018-00820 Filed 1-18-18; 8:45 am]
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