42 U.S.C. § 300aa: Definitions

The term “health care provider” means any licensed health care professional, organization, or institution, whether public or private (including Federal, State, and local departments, agencies, and instrumentalities) under whose authority a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table is administered. The term “legal representative” means a parent or an individual who qualifies as a legal guardian under State law. The term “manufacturer” means any corporation, organization, or institution, whether public or private (including Federal, State, and local departments, agencies, and instrumentalities), which manufactures, imports, processes, or distributes under its label any vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, except that, for purposes of section 300aa–28 of this title , such term shall include the manufacturer of any other vaccine covered by that section. The term “manufacture” means to manufacture, import, process, or distribute a vaccine. The term “significant aggravation” means any change for the worse in a preexisting condition which results in markedly greater disability, pain, or illness accompanied by substantial deterioration of health. The term “vaccine-related injury or death” means an illness, injury, condition, or death associated with one or more of the vaccines set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, except that the term does not include an illness, injury, condition, or death associated with an adulterant or contaminant intentionally added to such a vaccine. The term “Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines” means the Commission established under section 300aa–19 of this title . The term “Vaccine Injury Table” means the table set out in section 300aa–14 of this title . The Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) shall be applied and administered as if the sections repealed by subsection (a) [repealing sections 1714 to 1717 of Pub. L. 107–296 , which amended this section and enacted provisions set out as a note under this section] had never been enacted. No inference shall be drawn from the enactment of sections 1714 through 1717 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–296 ), or from this repeal [repealing sections 1714 to 1717 of Pub. L. 107–296 ], regarding the law prior to enactment of sections 1714 through 1717 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( Public Law 107–296 ) [ Nov. 25, 2002 ]. Further, no inference shall be drawn that subsection (a) or (b) affects any change in that prior law, or that Leroy v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Office of Special Master, No. 02–392V ( October 11, 2002 ), was incorrectly decided.”