3.0.0 6347 2019-11-15T21:17:36Z 2019-11-15T21:17:36Z House H HR 2006-12-05 109 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-12-05T15:06:20Z 2006-12-05 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2006-12-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2006-12-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress B000213 Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6] JOE BARTON R TX L. 6 N Emergency Management Chemicals Child care workers Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Crime and Law Enforcement Data banks Directories Disaster relief Disasters Education Elementary and secondary education Emergency medicine Environmental Protection Environmental health Environmental monitoring Epidemiology Families Federal advisory bodies Fire fighters Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Health Health counseling Health education Health facilities Health information systems Health surveys Higher education Labor and Employment Law enforcement officers Medical personnel Medical records Medical research Medical screening Medical tests Mental health services Occupational health and safety Paramedical personnel Physical examinations Police Rescue work Right of privacy School personnel Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Students Teachers Terrorism Toxicology Volunteer workers Emergency Management 00 2006-12-05 Introduced in House 2007-02-07T22:31:49Z Authorizes the President (acting through the Secretary of Health and Human Substances), upon determining that a substance of concern has been released in an area declared to be a disaster area and has disrupted the transportation system of the United States, to carry out a program for the coordination, protection, assessment, monitoring and study of the health and safety of responding or affected individuals with high exposure levels. Requires that such a program: (1) apply to workers or volunteers, clean up workers, residents of the area, and persons who are employed in or who attend school in the area; (2) ensure that such individuals are informed about and protected against potential health impacts of any such substance in a timely manner, are monitored and studied for any health impacts, and receive health care referrals; and (3) ensure that information from any such monitoring and studies is used to prevent or protect against similar health impacts.

Requires the President to take appropriate measures to protect the privacy of any participant in a registry or study. Gives priority in any registry or study to the protection, monitoring, and study of the heath and safety of individuals with the highest level of exposure to a substance of concern.

Allows the President to carry out such a program through a cooperative agreement with a medical institution.

Requires the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to jointly enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study disaster area health and environmental protection and monitoring.

]]> To provide for the protection of health and safety during certain disasters. Display Title To provide for the protection of health and safety during certain disasters. Official Title as Introduced To provide for the protection of health and safety during certain disasters. Introduced in House 2006-12-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr6347ih/xml/BILLS-109hr6347ih.xml 2006-12-05 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 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.