3.0.0 1442 2023-01-13T04:50:24Z 2023-01-13T04:50:24Z Senate S S 2005-07-21 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-07-21T17:34:58Z 2005-07-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2005-07-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8667-8868) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-07-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N C001040 Sen. Chafee, Lincoln [R-RI] LINCOLN CHAFEE R RI D. 2005-07-21 True R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2005-07-21 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2005-09-07 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2005-09-15 False Health Administrative procedure Agriculture and Food Alzheimer's disease Asthma Autism Autoimmune diseases Birth defects Cancer Cerebral palsy Chemicals Child health Chronically ill Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Clinical trials Communication in medicine Congress Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Demography Department of Health and Human Services Diabetes Directories Disabled Economics and Public Finance Education Electronic government information Employee training Environmental Protection Environmental health Environmental monitoring Environmental research Environmentally induced diseases Epidemiology Families Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to education Federal aid to research Federal-Indian relations Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Federal-territorial relations Genetic research Government Operations and Politics Government internships Government paperwork Government publicity Grants-in-aid Health information systems Health surveys Higher education Indian medical care Informed consent (Medical law) Labor and Employment Law Local employees Medical education Medical laboratories Medical records Medical research Medical statistics Mentally disabled Minorities Minority health Multiple sclerosis Native Americans Nervous system diseases Parkinson's disease Pesticides Pollution Poverty Preventive medicine Public health Public health personnel Recruiting of employees Respiratory diseases Right of privacy Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Standards State employees Vital statistics Health 00 2005-07-21 Introduced in Senate 2005-10-17T14:11:12Z Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish and operate the Coordinated Environmental Health Network. Directs the Secretary, in establishing and operating the Network, to:: (1) expand and coordinate among existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) provide for public access to an electronic national database on priority chronic conditions and relevant environmental and other factors; (3) operate a National Environmental Health Rapid Response Service to develop strategies to respond to and investigate higher than expected incidence and prevalence rates of priority chronic conditions and environmental exposures; (4) award grants for the establishment and operation of State Environmental Health Networks; (5) develop minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting for State Networks; (6) enter into a cooperative agreement with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in state and local health departments; and (7) enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment and operation of regional biomonitoring laboratories.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an Advisory Committee for the Network; (2) award John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students enrolled in an accredited school of public health or medicine; and (3) expand the scope and amount of biomonitoring data collected by CDC on environmental exposures.

Allows the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools or programs of public heath to establish and operate Centers of Excellence for research and demonstration with respect to chronic conditions and relevant environmental factors.

]]> Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 Display Title Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a Coordinated Environmental Health Network, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 Introduced in Senate 2005-07-21T04:00:00Z 2005-07-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.