HeLP America Act
Latest action · Jun 22, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedJun 22, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Sets forth provisions for the establishment of, and incentives for, preventive health programs.
Provides for: (1) a program to make free fresh fruits and vegetables available in schools; (2) establishment of a local school wellness policy; (3) healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants; and (4) school mental health program grants.
Healthy Workforce Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for: (1) a wellness program credit; and (2) an income exclusion for employer-provided off-premises health club services.
Provides for grants to promote individual and community health, to prevent the incidence of chronic disease, and to implement Living Well With a Disability Programs.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) develop enhanced standards for the design of roads and intersection controls to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety; and (2) implement public health surveillance measures to address mental and behavioral health needs.
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary to: (1) regulate tobacco products (through the Food and Drug Administration); and (2) establish the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. Sets forth tobacco product standards and registration, recordkeeping, reporting, manufacturer and importer user fee, labeling, advertising, and marketing requirements.
Requires vending machines and certain restaurants to provide nutritional information on each food offered, including the number of calories.
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to allow the Secretary to prohibit the advertising of certain foods in participating schools.
Disallows deductions for certain tobacco-related advertising and marketing expenses.
Provides for national and local campaigns to reduce the use of tobacco products. Allows the Secretary to impose penalties on the tobacco industry for failure to achieve specified goals to reduce youth smoking.
Amends the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of certain counseling and screening services, including for substance use, diet, exercise, clinical depression, anxiety, and cessation of tobacco use.
Establishes the Help (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation efforts and other efforts required by this Act.
Directs the Secretary to conduct research on obesity prevention, treatment, and control with regard to the effectiveness of physical activity and dietary counseling.
Revises provisions concerning tax shelters, including defining economic substance and adding or increasing the penalty for certain types of tax shelter activity.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 22, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Jun 22, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Jun 18, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7047-7050)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Advertising
- Agriculture and Food
- Ambulatory care
- Anxiety
- Bikeways
- Blood pressure
- Boundaries
- Breast cancer
- Business records
- Canada
- Carcinogens
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cervical cancer
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Cholesterol
- Chronically ill
- Cigarettes
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Confidential communications
- Congregate housing
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer protection
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Curricula
- Deceptive advertising
- Defective products
- Dental care
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Transportation
- Diet
- Directories
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug approvals
- Drug therapy
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee health benefits
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Exercise
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Federal aid to transportation
- Federal employees
- Federal preemption
- Federal Trade Commission
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Foreign corporations
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fruit
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Health warnings
- Housing and Community Development
- Imports
- Income tax
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Information disclosure (Securities law)
- Infrastructure
- Injunctions
- Insurance premiums
- Intellectual property
- Interest
- Investors
- Judicial review
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Law
- Liability (Law)
- Lifestyle
- Limitation of actions
- Local laws
- Marketing
- Medicaid
- Medical fees
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Medicare
- Mental depression
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Mexico
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Nicotine
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Oils and fats
- Osteoporosis
- Packaging
- Parent-school relationships
- Pedestrians
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Problem children
- Product counterfeiting
- Product safety
- Profit
- Public service advertising
- Research grants
- Restaurants
- Restrictive trade practices
- Retail trade
- Right of privacy
- Road construction
- Sales promotion
- Salt
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- Signs and signboards
- Small business
- Smokeless tobacco
- Smoking
- Smoking and youth
- Smuggling
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Sports facilities
- Standards
- State laws
- Stress (Psychology)
- Surveys
- Tax consultants
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax evasion
- Tax exclusion
- Tax penalties
- Tax returns
- Tax shelters
- Taxation
- Tobacco
- Tobacco exports
- Tobacco industry
- Tobacco tax
- Traffic accidents and safety
- Traffic signs and signals
- Transportation and Public Works
- User charges
- Vegetables
- Vending machines
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Warning labels
- Weight loss
- Women
- Women's health
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.