HeLP America Act
Latest action · May 9, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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.
- IntroducedMay 9, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene a task force on childhood obesity.
Provides for: (1) healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants; (2) the establishment of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to certify a hospital as a baby friendly hospital/center for breastfeeding excellence; and (3) programs to prevent youth problem behaviors.
Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a wellness program credit for employers; and (2) exclude from an employee's income the fees paid by an employer to an athletic or fitness facility on the employee's behalf.
Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Community Sports Programs for Individuals with Disabilities.
Provides incentives for states to ensure the safety and convenience of all users of a transportation system, including pedestrians and bicyclists.
Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to require employers to provide lactation periods and lactation facilities to permit employees to breastfeed eligible children.
Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act or the PLAY Every Day Act - Provides for the development of a tool to measure community barriers to participating in physical activity and provides for grants to plan model communities of play.
Requires certain restaurants and vending machines to provide nutritional information about each food offered, including the number of calories.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) impose penalties on the tobacco industry for failure to achieve specified goals to reduce youth cigarette use; and (2) encourage a state program to recognize school-based health centers as a model of delivery for primary care for children eligible for federal medical assistance.
Establishes the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation drugs and other programs required by this Act.
Provides for research on obesity, physical activity in schools, and dietary sodium intake.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 9, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Jul 9, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2007Introduced in Senate
- May 9, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2633 | HeLP America Act | Identical bill | Jul 24, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Agriculture and Food
- Bicycles
- Breast feeding
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Cigarettes
- Commerce
- Consumer education
- Diet
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug therapy
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee benefit plans
- Families
- Family leave
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Fees
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Hospitals
- Income tax
- Infants
- Juvenile delinquency
- Labor and Employment
- Medicaid
- Medical research
- Mental health services
- Obesity
- Pedestrians
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Preschool education
- Preventive medicine
- Restaurants
- Salt
- School health programs
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoking and youth
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Sports facilities
- Tax credits
- Tax exclusion
- Taxation
- Tobacco industry
- Traffic accidents and safety
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation safety
- Vending machines
- Women
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.