IMPACT Act
Latest action · Jul 17, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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 28, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include the treatment of overweight, obesity, and eating disorders.
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for the training of primary care physicians and other health professions on how to identify, treat, and prevent obesity or eating disorders and aid individuals who are overweight or obese or who suffer from eating disorders.
Requires the Secretary, acting though the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for the planning and implementation of programs that promote healthy eating behaviors and physical activity.
Allows the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide for the collection and analysis of data for determining the fitness levels and energy expenditures of children and data collected as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to review the research to determine if the information might be important for the health disparities report.
Permits states to use preventive health and health services block grants for activities and community education programs designed to address and prevent obesity and eating disorders.
Requires the Secretary to report to the relevant congressional committees on: (1) the causes and health implications of being overweight, obese, or having an eating disorder; and (2) the effectiveness of campaigns to change children's behaviors and reduce obesity.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 28, 2006 to Sep 29, 2006, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Jun 28, 2006 |
| R-TX | Kay Granger | Original | Jun 28, 2006 |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Original | Jun 28, 2006 |
| R-TN | Zach Wamp | Original | Jun 28, 2006 |
| D-IA | Leonard L. Boswell | Sep 7, 2006 | |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Sep 7, 2006 | |
| R-MN | Jim Ramstad | Sep 13, 2006 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Sep 14, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Sep 26, 2006 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Sep 26, 2006 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Sep 29, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 28, 2006Introduced in House
- Jun 28, 2006Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1325 | IMPACT Act | Related bill | Jun 28, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Agriculture and Food
- Authorization
- Bicycles
- Block grants
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Chronically ill
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Corporations
- Curricula
- Day care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Depressed areas
- Diabetes
- Disabled
- Eating disorders
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic government information
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employee training
- Ethnic relations
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Exercise
- Families
- Family medicine
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to research
- Food relief
- Food service
- Geriatrics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Grocery trade
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Hereditary diseases
- Higher education
- Hospitals
- Housing and Community Development
- Human behavior
- Hunger
- Indian medical care
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Language and languages
- Lifestyle
- Marketing
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical residents
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nursing homes
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Occupational health and safety
- Parent and child
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Prejudice
- Preventive medicine
- Public health administration
- Public service advertising
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality of care
- Quality of life
- Recreation
- Recreation centers
- Research grants
- Rural health
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- School personnel
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Stress (Psychology)
- Students
- Sunset legislation
- Teacher education
- Teleconferencing
- Trails
- Transportation and Public Works
- Urban affairs
- Volunteer workers
- Walking
- Web sites
- Weight loss
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 28, 2006Introduced in House
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