Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act
Latest action · Apr 14, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3670-3674)
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.
- IntroducedApr 14, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Federal Government coordinates efforts to develop, implement, and enforce policies to prevent obesity among children and youth.
Requires the Secretary to establish within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a Federal Leadership Commission to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the effect of Federal nutrition assistance programs and agricultural policies on the prevention of childhood obesity.
Sets forth procedures to establish and enforce guidelines for nutritional food and physical activity advertising and marketing to prevent childhood obesity.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants to: (1) implement a State children's obesity prevention and control plan; and (2) disseminate childhood obesity prevention evidence-based practices to individuals, families, schools, organizations and communities.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award grants to develop obesity prevention behavior change curricula for early childhood home visitation programs and afterschool programs; and (2) establish and implement activities to prevent obesity by encouraging healthy nutrition choices and physical activity in schools.
Provides for grants to promote good nutrition and physical activity for students in schools and children in communities.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to support the training of early childhood professionals about obesity prevention.
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify research that addresses the prevention of childhood obesity.
Requires the Secretary to support research (through grants) to promote physical activity in children through enhancement of the built environment.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 9, 2005.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | May 9, 2005 |
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 Apr 14, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 14, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Apr 14, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3670)
- Apr 14, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3670-3674)
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 S3670Text printed S3670–S3674 | Edward M. Kennedy D-MA (text) | Apr 14, 2005 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43930 | Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program: Background and Funding Archived | Report | Nov 21, 2018 |
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 provide for the coordination of Federal Government policies and activities to prevent obesity in childhood, to provide for State childhood obesity prevention and control, and to establish grant programs to prevent childhood obesity within homes, schools, and communities.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Advertising
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Beverages
- Bicycles
- Breast feeding
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Child development
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Community organization
- Conferences
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Curricula
- Dairy products
- Day care
- Deceptive advertising
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diet
- Discrimination
- Economic statistics
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational facilities
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal Trade Commission
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food industry
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health education
- Health planning
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Human behavior
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Indian children
- Indian medical care
- Infants
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Marketing
- Maternal health services
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Obesity
- Oils and fats
- Parent and child
- Pedestrians
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Playgrounds
- Poor children
- Preventive medicine
- Public service advertising
- Public-private partnerships
- Restrictive trade practices
- School health programs
- School personnel
- School-age child care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Standards
- Strategic planning
- Sugar
- Teacher education
- Television and children
- Trails
- Urban affairs
- Urban areas
- Vegetables
- Vending machines
- Walking
- Water Resources Development
- Weight loss
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 14, 2005Introduced in Senate
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