Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004
Latest action · Oct 8, 2004 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10852-10855)
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.
- IntroducedOct 8, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish and operate the Coordinated Environmental Health Network (the Network), including by: (1) identifying, expanding, and coordinating among existing Federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) providing for public access to an electronic national database on the incidence and prevalence of specified priority chronic conditions and relevant environmental and other factors; (3) operating a National Environmental Health Rapid Response Service to develop strategies to rapidly respond to, and conduct investigations of, higher than expected incidence and prevalence rates of priority chronic conditions and environmental exposures; (4) awarding grants to States, local governments, territories, and Indian tribes to establish, maintain, and operate State Environmental Health Networks; (5) developing minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting for State Networks, including mechanisms for allowing States to set priorities and allocate resources accordingly; (6) establishing an Advisory Committee for the Network; (7) awarding John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students who are enrolled in an accredited school of public health or medicine; and (8) entering into a cooperative agreement with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in State and local health departments.
Allows the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools or programs of public health to establish, maintain, and operate Centers of Excellence for research and demonstration with respect to chronic conditions and relevant environmental factors, which may include investigating causal connections between chronic conditions and environmental factors.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Oct 8, 2004.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Oct 8, 2004 |
| R-RI | Lincoln Chafee | Original | Oct 8, 2004 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Oct 8, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 8, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Oct 8, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10851-10852)
- Oct 8, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10852-10855)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S10851Text printed S10852–S10855 | Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY (text) | Oct 8, 2004 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5335 | Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004 | Identical bill | Oct 11, 2004 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Coordinated Environmental Health Network, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Alzheimer's disease
- Asthma
- Autism
- Autoimmune diseases
- Birth defects
- Cancer
- Cerebral palsy
- Chemicals
- Child health
- Chronically ill
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Demography
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diabetes
- Directories
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic government information
- Employee training
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Epidemiology
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to research
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Federal-territorial relations
- Government internships
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Indian medical care
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Local employees
- Medical education
- Medical laboratories
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Mentally disabled
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Multiple sclerosis
- Native Americans
- Nervous system diseases
- Parkinson's disease
- Pesticides
- Pollution
- Poverty
- Preventive medicine
- Public health
- Public health personnel
- Recruiting of employees
- Respiratory diseases
- Right of privacy
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State employees
- Vital statistics
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 8, 2004Introduced in Senate
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