3.0.0 799 2020-02-10T17:00:20Z 2020-02-10T17:00:20Z Senate S S 2005-04-14 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-04-14T20:58:36Z 2005-04-14 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 S3670-3674) IntroReferral 2005-04-14 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3670) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-04-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2005-05-09 False Health Administrative procedure Advertising Agricultural subsidies Agriculture and Food Beverages Bicycles Breast feeding Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Child development Child health Child nutrition Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Community health services Community organization Conferences Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Curricula Dairy products Day care Deceptive advertising Department of Health and Human Services Diet Discrimination Economic statistics Economics and Public Finance Education Educational facilities Elementary and secondary education Employee training Evaluation research (Social action programs) Executive reorganization Families Federal Trade Commission Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Fines (Penalties) Food industry Fruit Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Health education Health planning Higher education Housing and Community Development Human behavior Independent regulatory commissions Indian children Indian medical care Infants Labor and Employment Law Marketing Maternal health services Medical education Medical research Minorities Minority health Obesity Oils and fats Parent and child Pedestrians Physical education and training Physical fitness Playgrounds Poor children Preventive medicine Public service advertising Public-private partnerships Restrictive trade practices School health programs School personnel School-age child care Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Standards Strategic planning Sugar Teacher education Television and children Trails Urban affairs Urban areas Vegetables Vending machines Walking Water Resources Development Weight loss Women Health 00 2005-04-14 Introduced in Senate 2005-05-24T14:38:01Z Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Federal Government coordinates efforts to develop, implement, and enforce policies to prevent obesity among children and youth.

Requires the Secretary to establish within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a Federal Leadership Commission to Prevent Childhood Obesity.

Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the effect of Federal nutrition assistance programs and agricultural policies on the prevention of childhood obesity.

Sets forth procedures to establish and enforce guidelines for nutritional food and physical activity advertising and marketing to prevent childhood obesity.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants to: (1) implement a State children's obesity prevention and control plan; and (2) disseminate childhood obesity prevention evidence-based practices to individuals, families, schools, organizations and communities.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) award grants to develop obesity prevention behavior change curricula for early childhood home visitation programs and afterschool programs; and (2) establish and implement activities to prevent obesity by encouraging healthy nutrition choices and physical activity in schools.

Provides for grants to promote good nutrition and physical activity for students in schools and children in communities.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to support the training of early childhood professionals about obesity prevention.

Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify research that addresses the prevention of childhood obesity.

Requires the Secretary to support research (through grants) to promote physical activity in children through enhancement of the built environment.

]]> Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act Short Titles as Introduced Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act Display Title Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the coordination of Federal Government policies and activities to prevent obesity in childhood, to provide for State childhood obesity prevention and control, and to establish grant programs to prevent childhood obesity within homes, schools, and communities. Introduced in Senate 2005-04-14T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s799is/xml/BILLS-109s799is.xml 2005-04-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3670-3674) 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.