HeLP America Act
Latest action · Sep 28, 2006 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.
- IntroducedJul 27, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Sets forth provisions regarding healthy eating in schools, including: (1) limiting foods of minimal nutritional value sold in schools; and (2) providing for healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants.
Healthy Workforce Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to: (1) allow a wellness program credit for employers; (2) remove the reduction in the highest tax rate applicable for taxable years after 2000; and (3) exclude from an employee's income the fees paid by an employer to an athletic or fitness facility on the employee's behalf.
Provides for grants to promote individual and community health and to prevent the incidence of chronic disease.
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 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 about each food offered, including the number of calories.
Amends the Social Security Act to provide coverage for certain counseling and screening services. Requires the Secretary to encourage a state program to utilize school-based health centers to deliver primary care to children eligible for federal medical assistance.
Establishes the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation efforts and other efforts required by this Act.
Requires the Secretary to conduct research on obesity prevention, treatment, and control.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 27, 2006 to Sep 21, 2006, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Jul 27, 2006 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Jul 27, 2006 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Sep 21, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 28, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
- Aug 1, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jul 27, 2006Introduced in House
- Jul 27, 2006Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
- Jul 27, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1554)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Accident prevention
- Administrative procedure
- Advertising
- Agriculture and Food
- Ambulatory care
- Anxiety
- Business records
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Chronically ill
- Cigarettes
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Cost effectiveness
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Deceptive advertising
- Dental care
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diet
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug approvals
- Drug therapy
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Employee health benefits
- Executive reorganization
- Exercise
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal preemption
- Federal Trade Commission
- Fees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Fraud
- Fruit
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health maintenance organizations
- Higher education
- Income tax
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Intellectual property
- Judicial review
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Lifestyle
- Local laws
- Managed care
- Marketing
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medical research
- Medical residents
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental depression
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Nicotine
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Packaging
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Physicians
- Poor children
- Pregnant women
- Preventive medicine
- Product counterfeiting
- Product safety
- Public health
- Public service advertising
- Restaurants
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sleep disorders
- Smokeless tobacco
- Smoking
- Smoking and youth
- Smuggling
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Sports facilities
- Standards
- State laws
- Stress (Psychology)
- Surveys
- Tax credits
- Tax deductions
- Tax exclusion
- Tax rates
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Tobacco
- Tobacco industry
- User charges
- Vegetables
- Vending machines
- Warning labels
- Women
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 27, 2006Introduced in House
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