Strengthening Public Health Protections in Major Disasters and Emergencies Act of 2007
Latest action · Mar 30, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
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- IntroducedMar 29, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Strengthening Public Health Protections in Major Disasters and Emergencies Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection, assessment, monitoring, and study of the health and safety of individuals who responded to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita or who respond to a major disaster or emergency, if chemicals or substances associated with potential acute or chronic human health effects were or are released in a major disaster area.
Makes participation voluntary. Requires the President to take appropriate measures to protect the privacy of registry or study participants. Authorizes the President to carry out such a program through a cooperative agreement with a medical institution (including a local health department) or a consortium of medical institutions. Requires the President to carry out such a program in accordance with certain privacy regulations.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enter jointly into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on disaster area health and environmental protection and monitoring.
Extends through September 30, 2010, the President's authority to establish a program to provide technical and financial assistance to state and local governments for the implementation of cost-effective predisaster hazard mitigation measures.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize payments from allotments made to a state for community outreach and education programs and other activities designed to prevent health and health care disparities.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 30, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
- Mar 30, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 29, 2007Introduced in House
- Mar 29, 2007Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Alabama
- Block grants
- Chemicals
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Directories
- Disaster relief
- Emergency Management
- Environmental health
- Environmental justice
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Epidemiology
- Fire fighters
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health education
- Health surveys
- Hurricanes
- Labor and Employment
- Law enforcement officers
- Louisiana
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Mental health
- Mississippi
- Occupational health and safety
- Paramedical personnel
- Physical examinations
- Police
- Preventive medicine
- Rescue work
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Terrorism
- Texas
- Toxicology
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 29, 2007Introduced in House
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