42 U.S.C. § 191

Bureau established

There shall be established in the Department of Health and Human Services a bureau to be known as the Children’s Bureau.

( Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 73, § 1 , 37 Stat. 79 ; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 3 , 37 Stat. 737 ; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. July 16, 1946 , 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095 ; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953 , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631 ; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b) , Oct. 17, 1979 , 93 Stat. 695 .)