3.0.0 1067 2023-01-11T19:47:33Z 2023-01-11T19:47:33Z Senate S S 2007-03-29 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-29T20:50:43Z Healthy Places Act of 2007 110 398 HR 2007-04-23 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3758-3759) Related bill CRS 2007-03-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-03-29 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4207-4208) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL N K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2007-03-29 True C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2007-03-29 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2007-03-29 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2008-02-28 False L000261 Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] CARL LEVIN D MI MILTON 2008-05-08 False Health Access to health care Citizen participation Community health services Data banks Economics and Public Finance Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Environmental health Environmental monitoring Environmental research Epidemiology Executive reorganization Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Federal-local relations Federal-state relations Government Operations and Politics Health education Health planning Health surveys Housing and Community Development Land use Medical research Minorities Minority health Public Lands and Natural Resources Quality of life Research grants Science, Technology, Communications Transportation and Public Works Health 00 2007-03-29 Introduced in Senate 2007-05-08T22:05:52Z Healthy Places Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group to discuss environmental health concerns, particularly concerns disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health at CDC focused on advancing the field of health impact assessment.

Requires the Director to develop guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish a program to provide funding and technical assistance to state or local governments affected or potentially affected by an activity or proposed activity to prepare health impact assessments; and (2) establish and maintain a health impact assessment database.

Requires the Director to establish a grant program to award grants to state or local communities for environmental health improvement activities. Requires grantees to: (1) establish a planning and prioritizing council; and (2) conduct environmental health assessment.

Requires the Secretary to provide grants to public or private nonprofit institutions to conduct and coordinate research on the built environment and its influence on individual and population-based health.

]]> Healthy Places Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require Federal agencies to support health impact assessments and take other actions to improve health and the environmental quality of communities, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Healthy Places Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Healthy Places Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1067is/xml/BILLS-110s1067is.xml 2007-03-29 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.