Obesity Prevention, Treatment, and Research Act of 2008
Latest action · Sep 25, 2008 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9499-9502)
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 25, 2008
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Obesity Prevention, Treatment, and Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to convene a United States Council on Overweight-Obesity Prevention with duties to include developing strategies to comprehensively prevent, treat, and reduce overweight and obesity.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a grant demonstration and pilot program to address overweight and obesity issues, including through promoting increased physical activity and healthier lifestyles.
Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants to promote health behaviors for women and children in target populations.
Provides for the collection and analysis of data on fitness levels, health, and nutrition.
Includes community education programs designed to address and prevent overweight, obesity, and eating disorders as activities states may carry out under preventive health services and health services block grants.
Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture to update and reform federal oversight of food and beverage labeling.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide for additional funding for a program to make free fresh fruits and vegetables available in elementary schools.
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant titles of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of certain services related to overweight and obesity, including diet and exercise counseling, medical nutrition therapy services, and weight and body mass index (BMI) measurement and monitoring.
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 | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Sep 25, 2008 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2008Introduced in Senate
- Sep 25, 2008Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9498-9499)
- Sep 25, 2008Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9499-9502)
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 S9498Text printed S9499–S9502 | Jeff Bingaman D-NM (text) | Sep 25, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to comprehensively prevent, treat, and decrease overweight and obesity in our Nation's populations.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Obesity Prevention, Treatment, and Research Act of 2008
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Agriculture and Food
- Block grants
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Diet
- Eating disorders
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Fruit
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Labeling
- Lifestyle
- Maternal health services
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Physical education and training
- Physical fitness
- Physicians
- Poor children
- Preventive medicine
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- School health programs
- School lunch program
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Vegetables
- Weight loss
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 25, 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.
