3.0.0 2399 2023-01-15T04:49:06Z 2023-01-15T04:49:06Z Senate S S 2004-05-10 108 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-05-10T22:29:25Z 2004-05-10 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5092-5094) IntroReferral 2004-05-10 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5091-5092) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-05-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000442 Sen. Fitzgerald, Peter [R-IL] PETER FITZGERALD R IL N K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2004-05-10 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2004-07-07 False Health Agriculture and Food Bikeways Child health Child nutrition Commemorations Commerce Community health services Congress Congressional reporting requirements Cost effectiveness Curricula Diet Economics and Public Finance Education Educational accountability Elementary and secondary education Employee health benefits Employee training Environmental Protection Evaluation research (Social action programs) Exercise Families Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Fringe benefits Fruit Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publications Government publicity Greenways Grocery trade Health counseling Health education Health planning Health surveys Higher education Historic sites History Indian medical care Information technology Labor and Employment Medical education Medical research Medical screening Medical statistics Minorities Native Americans Natural areas Nutrition Occupational health and safety Oils and fats Open space lands Parent and child Parks Pedestrians Physical education and training Potable water Preventive medicine Public Lands and Natural Resources Public service advertising Quality of care Recreation centers Research grants Restaurants Salt School health programs School personnel Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Standards Sugar Trails Transportation and Public Works Transportation engineering Vegetables Water Resources Development Health 00 2004-05-10 Introduced in Senate 2004-08-26T17:38:48Z Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and implement activities to increase physical activity in schools, work sites, and communities. Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): (1) to support physical education programs in schools and training for school personnel; (2) with the Secretary of Labor, to develop work sites that encourage employee participation in physical activity; and (3) with the Secretaries of Transportation and Interior, to implement projects to design pedestrian zones, cycling paths, and open space areas linking parks with residential communities.

Amends the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 to require the Secretary to: (1) enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to develop and publish Dietary Guidelines for Americans; (2) ensure that such guidelines serve as the basis of any Federal food, nutrition, or health program; and (3) revise the food guide pyramid.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to make recommendations on disseminating dietary information and nutrition guidelines; and (2) publish a plan to implement such recommendations.

Requires the Secretary to award grants to improve the consumption of nutritional foods, including by: (1) promoting the intake of nutritional foods; and (2) conducting outreach to grocery stores to increase the availability of healthy foods and beverages.

Requires the Secretary to coordinate research on obesity and award grants to: (1) support State comprehensive obesity prevention and control programs; (2) enable States to provide public health surveillance, prevention and control activities; and (3) assist in implementing a national strategy for obesity prevention and control.

]]> Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004 Display Title Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for the improvement of physical activity and nutrition and the prevention of obesity for all Americans. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-05-10T04:00:00Z 2004-05-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5092-5094) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.