3.0.0 2558 2023-01-15T04:49:21Z 2023-01-15T04:49:21Z Senate S S 2004-06-22 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-06-22T21:08:00Z 2004-06-22 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2004-06-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress 2004-06-18 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7047-7050) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD N Health Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Advertising Agriculture and Food Ambulatory care Anxiety Bikeways Blood pressure Boundaries Breast cancer Business records Canada Carcinogens Cardiovascular diseases Cervical cancer Child health Child nutrition Cholesterol Chronically ill Cigarettes Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil actions and liability Coinsurance Commerce Community health services Confidential communications Congregate housing Congress Congressional investigations Congressional oversight Congressional reporting requirements Consumer protection Cost effectiveness Crime and Law Enforcement Curricula Deceptive advertising Defective products Dental care Department of Agriculture Department of Health and Human Services Department of Transportation Diet Directories Disabled Drug abuse Drug abuse prevention Drug approvals Drug therapy Drugs Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Elementary and secondary education Employee health benefits Evaluation research (Social action programs) Exercise Families Federal Trade Commission Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Federal aid to transportation Federal employees Federal preemption Fees Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations Fruit Government Operations and Politics Government employees' health insurance Government paperwork Government publicity Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Health counseling Health education Health insurance Health planning Health surveys Health warnings Housing and Community Development Imports Income tax Independent regulatory commissions Indexing (Economic policy) Information disclosure (Securities law) Infrastructure Injunctions Insurance premiums Intellectual property Interest Investors Judicial review Labeling Labor and Employment Latin America Law Liability (Law) Lifestyle Limitation of actions Local laws Marketing Medicaid Medical fees Medical research Medical screening Medical tests Medicare Mental depression Mental health services Mental illness Mexico Minorities Minority health Nicotine Nutrition Obesity Oils and fats Osteoporosis Packaging Parent-school relationships Pedestrians Physical education and training Physical fitness Pregnant women Preventive medicine Problem children Product counterfeiting Product safety Profit Public service advertising Research grants Restaurants Restrictive trade practices Retail trade Right of privacy Road construction Sales promotion Salt School health programs School lunch program Signs and signboards Small business Smokeless tobacco Smoking Smoking and youth Smuggling Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Sports facilities Standards State laws Stress (Psychology) Surveys Tax consultants Tax credits Tax deductions Tax evasion Tax exclusion Tax penalties Tax returns Tax shelters Taxation Tobacco Tobacco exports Tobacco industry Tobacco tax Traffic accidents and safety Traffic signs and signals Transportation and Public Works User charges Vegetables Vending machines Vocational rehabilitation Warning labels Weight loss Women Women's health Health 00 2004-06-22 Introduced in Senate 2004-11-12T19:45:39Z Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Sets forth provisions for the establishment of, and incentives for, preventive health programs.

Provides for: (1) a program to make free fresh fruits and vegetables available in schools; (2) establishment of a local school wellness policy; (3) healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants; and (4) school mental health program grants.

Healthy Workforce Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for: (1) a wellness program credit; and (2) an income exclusion for employer-provided off-premises health club services.

Provides for grants to promote individual and community health, to prevent the incidence of chronic disease, and to implement Living Well With a Disability Programs.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) develop enhanced standards for the design of roads and intersection controls to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety; and (2) implement public health surveillance measures to address mental and behavioral health needs.

Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary to: (1) regulate tobacco products (through the Food and Drug Administration); and (2) establish the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. Sets forth tobacco product standards and registration, recordkeeping, reporting, manufacturer and importer user fee, labeling, advertising, and marketing requirements.

Requires vending machines and certain restaurants to provide nutritional information on each food offered, including the number of calories.

Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to allow the Secretary to prohibit the advertising of certain foods in participating schools.

Disallows deductions for certain tobacco-related advertising and marketing expenses.

Provides for national and local campaigns to reduce the use of tobacco products. Allows the Secretary to impose penalties on the tobacco industry for failure to achieve specified goals to reduce youth smoking.

Amends the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of certain counseling and screening services, including for substance use, diet, exercise, clinical depression, anxiety, and cessation of tobacco use.

Establishes the Help (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation efforts and other efforts required by this Act.

Directs the Secretary to conduct research on obesity prevention, treatment, and control with regard to the effectiveness of physical activity and dietary counseling.

Revises provisions concerning tax shelters, including defining economic substance and adding or increasing the penalty for certain types of tax shelter activity.

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