Border Economic Recovery Act for Health and the Environment
Latest action · Jun 18, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 20, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 with respect to funding for State-furnished emergency health services for undocumented aliens in the United States-Mexico border area ("border area").
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, with respect to the special supplemental nutrition program, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize partnerships for increased coordination of food and nutrition assistance for residents of colonias in the border area.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase funding for grants and loans for water and waste facilities in communities whose residents face significant health risks.
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to selected colleges in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to provide community resource centers to serve colonias.
Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to funding of: (1) tuberculosis prevention activities in the border area; and (2) interdisciplinary, community-based linkages and centers addressing unmet health care needs in such area and in the State of Florida.
Authorizes funding for the Border Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (concerning youth substance abuse prevention in the border area).
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make awards of grants or cooperative agreements to: (1) conduct cancer screenings in the border area and report diagnosis information to the appropriate State cancer registry; (2) expand a diabetes study; and (3) support community-based sexually transmitted disease control programs.
Provides funding for the Department of HUD's Healthy Homes Initiative, reserving specified amounts for border area activities.
Provides funding for: (1) the Materials Corridor Partnership Initiative; (2) the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy; (3) environmental infrastructure projects carried out by the International Boundary and Water Commission (and requires a long-range water supply strategic plan); (4) the U.S. contribution to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation; (5) innovative water conservation programs; (6) the International Consortium for the Environment established at Brooks Air Force Base; (7) the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission for environmental infrastructure projects; and (8) grants for high-priority projects carried out through the North American Development Bank's Border Environmental Infrastructure Fund.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 20, 2002 to Jun 26, 2002; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-TX | Ciro D. Rodriguez | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-MO | Richard A. Gephardt | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-TX | Solomon P. Ortiz | Original | Mar 20, 2002 |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | May 14, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Jun 26, 2002 |
Committees 7
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 2, 2002 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 18, 2002 | |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Jun 18, 2002 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Mar 28, 2002 | |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Mar 28, 2002 | |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| Housing and Insurance Subcommittee | Referred Apr 15, 2002 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Mar 20, 2002 |
| Readiness Subcommittee | Referred Apr 5, 2002 |
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 18, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Jun 18, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Apr 15, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Apr 5, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Readiness.
- Apr 2, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 28, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Mar 28, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
- Mar 20, 2002Introduced in House
- Mar 20, 2002Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To improve the health of residents of, and the environment in, the United States-Mexico border area.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Border Economic Recovery Act for Health and the Environment
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Agriculture and Food
- AIDS (Disease)
- Air bases
- Air pollution control
- Air quality
- Arizona
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Boundaries
- Building construction
- California
- Canada
- Cancer
- Child nutrition
- Colonias
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Defense budgets
- Diabetes
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services
- Employee training
- Engineers
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Families
- Federal aid to community development
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to hospitals
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Federal aid to substance abuse programs
- Federal aid to the aged
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Federal aid to youth services
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Florida
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Health
- Health information systems
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Illegal aliens
- Immigrant health
- Immigration
- Industrial pollution
- Infrastructure
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International cooperation
- International environmental cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Lead poisoning
- Materials
- Materials research
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical screening
- Mexico
- Minorities
- Multilateral development banks
- New Mexico
- Preventive medicine
- Public health
- Raw materials
- Research and development
- Research and development contracts
- Research centers
- Research grants
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Sewage treatment plants
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Sustainable development
- Technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Texas
- Tuberculosis
- Waste water treatment
- Water conservation
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Water treatment plants
- Water use
- Watershed management
- WIC program
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 20, 2002Introduced in House
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