3.0.0 1342 2023-01-11T16:32:42Z 2023-01-11T16:32:42Z Senate S S 2007-05-09 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-05-09T17:42:15Z HeLP America Act 110 2633 HR 2007-07-24 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Identical bill CRS Text similarities House 2007-05-09 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-05-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD N S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2007-07-09 False Health Agriculture and Food Bicycles Breast feeding Child health Child nutrition Cigarettes Commerce Consumer education Diet Disabled Drug abuse Drug therapy Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee benefit plans Families Family leave Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Fees Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Health surveys Higher education Hospitals Income tax Infants Juvenile delinquency Labor and Employment Medicaid Medical research Mental health services Obesity Pedestrians Physical education and training Physical fitness Preschool education Preventive medicine Restaurants Salt School health programs Science, Technology, Communications Smoking and youth Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Sports facilities Tax credits Tax exclusion Taxation Tobacco industry Traffic accidents and safety Transportation and Public Works Transportation safety Vending machines Women Health 00 2007-05-09 Introduced in Senate 2007-07-18T19:46:20Z Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene a task force on childhood obesity.

Provides for: (1) healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants; (2) the establishment of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to certify a hospital as a baby friendly hospital/center for breastfeeding excellence; and (3) programs to prevent youth problem behaviors.

Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a wellness program credit for employers; and (2) exclude from an employee's income the fees paid by an employer to an athletic or fitness facility on the employee's behalf.

Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Community Sports Programs for Individuals with Disabilities.

Provides incentives for states to ensure the safety and convenience of all users of a transportation system, including pedestrians and bicyclists.

Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to require employers to provide lactation periods and lactation facilities to permit employees to breastfeed eligible children.

Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act or the PLAY Every Day Act - Provides for the development of a tool to measure community barriers to participating in physical activity and provides for grants to plan model communities of play.

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

Directs the Secretary to: (1) impose penalties on the tobacco industry for failure to achieve specified goals to reduce youth cigarette use; and (2) encourage a state program to recognize school-based health centers as a model of delivery for primary care for children eligible for federal medical assistance.

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

Provides for research on obesity, physical activity in schools, and dietary sodium intake.

]]> Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act Display Title Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve the health of Americans and reduce health care costs by reorienting the Nation's health care system toward prevention, wellness, and self care. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill PLAY Every Day Act Short Titles as Introduced Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act Short Titles as Introduced HeLP America Act Introduced in Senate 2007-05-09T04:00:00Z 2007-05-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.