NATIONAL AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER INITIATIVE.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER INITIATIVE. (a) In general.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall designate an existing official within the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee, in consultation with the Secretaries of Defense and Education, national autism spectrum disorder research, services, and support activities. (b) Duties.—The official designated under subsection (a) shall— (1) implement autism spectrum disorder activities, taking into account the strategic plan developed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee under section 399CC(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280i-2(b)); and (2) ensure that autism spectrum disorder activities of the Department of Health and Human Services and of other Federal departments and agencies are not unnecessarily duplicative.