Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act
Latest action · Sep 16, 2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedSep 16, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act - Establishes the Task Force on Environmental Health and Safety Risks to Children to: (1) recommend to the President federal strategies for children's environmental health and safety; and (2) develop a proposed plan for use in ensuring that researchers and federal research agencies have access to information on federal research that relates to adverse health risk in children resulting from exposure to environmental health and safety risks.
Directs each federal agency, for each regulatory action submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review that may concern an environmental health risk or safety risk that may disproportionately affect children, to provide: (1) an evaluation of the environmental health and safety effects of the planned regulation; and (2) an explanation of why the planned regulation is preferable to other potentially effective and reasonable feasible alternatives considered by the agency. Requires agencies to comply with such requirements to the maximum extent practicable in emergency situations.
Requires the Director of OMB to convene the Forum on Child and Family Statistics to: (1) publish an annual report that describes the most important indicators of the well-being of U.S. children; (2) provide an ongoing review of federal collection and dissemination of data on children and families; and (3) make recommendations to improve the coverage and coordination of data collection and to reduce duplication and overlap.
Applies this Act only to the executive branch.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee | Referred Sep 16, 2008 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Sep 16, 2008Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide for the establishment of a task force to address the environmental health and safety risks posed to children, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Children's Environmental Health and Safety Risk Reduction Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Child health
- Child safety
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Food safety
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Law
- Potable water
- Product safety
- Risk
- Soil pollution
- Water Resources Development
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2008Introduced in Senate
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
