HR 5809 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008

Introduced Apr 15, 2008 Originated House Sponsor Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 16, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedApr 15, 2008
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems; (2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.

Requires the program to provide for: (1) the collection and dissemination of scientifically valid information on human health effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants, the extent of human exposure to such pollutants, and the exposure of wildlife species to such pollutants and possible associated health effects; and (2) research on mechanisms by which such pollutants interact with biological systems, testing for hormone disruption, and the identity and fate of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment.

Gives the Director principal responsibility for conducting and coordinating research on the unintended effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants on human health and the environment.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission. Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel to make recommendations on the design and implementation of the program.

Cosponsors 21

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 15, 2008 to Aug 1, 2008, with 15 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-MDChris Van HollenOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-CAHenry A. WaxmanOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-MAJames P. McGovernOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-VAJames P. MoranOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.OriginalApr 15, 2008
D-MNKeith EllisonOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-CALois CappsOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-NYMaurice D. HincheyOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-CAMichael M. HondaOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-NYMichael R. McNultyOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalApr 15, 2008
D-TXSheila Jackson LeeOriginalApr 15, 2008
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Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 16, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
  2. Apr 16, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  3. Apr 15, 2008Introduced in House
  4. Apr 15, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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.
  5. Apr 15, 2008Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E615)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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  1. Apr 15, 2008Introduced in House

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