3.0.0 2424 2023-01-11T13:15:26Z 2023-01-11T13:15:26Z Senate S S 2007-12-06 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-12-06T21:39:09Z 2007-12-06 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-12-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN N H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2007-12-06 True D000407 Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] PETE DOMENICI R NM VICHI 2007-12-06 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2007-12-06 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2007-12-06 True L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2007-12-06 True J000177 Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD] TIM JOHNSON D SD 2008-01-24 False Health Commerce Conferences Consumer education Department of Health and Human Services Economics and Public Finance Executive reorganization Federal aid to health facilities Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Health education Health surveys Medical research Science, Technology, Communications Health 00 2007-12-06 Introduced in Senate 2008-05-29T16:55:15Z National Health Literacy Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to establish within the Agency a Health Literacy Implementation Center to enhance efforts to eliminate low health literacy by improving measurements, research, development, and information dissemination. Defines "health literacy" as an individual's ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions.

Directs the Center to: (1) make health literacy resources available to researchers, health care providers, and the public; (2) sponsor demonstration and evaluation projects; (3) develop the next generation of health literacy interventions and tools; (4) identify and fill research gaps relating to health literacy that have direct applicability to quality improvement; (5) assist federal agencies in establishing specific objectives and strategies for carrying out the Center's purpose and in monitoring programs; (6) enter into implementation partnerships to promote adoption of literacy interventions and tools; and (7) enter into an interagency agreement to facilitate coordination of health literacy activities within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Education.

Requires: (1) the Center to convene at least one annual public meeting to help raise awareness about the problem of health literacy and federal and state efforts to address the issue; (2) the Director of the Center to award grants to states to provide for the establishment of a network of state or regional health literacy resource centers; (3) a state health literacy resource center to meet at least annually to share a model of best practices; and (4) the HHS Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine to identify opportunities within HHS to improve the public's health literacy through the Medicare and Medicaid programs and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

]]> National Health Literacy Act of 2007 Display Title National Health Literacy Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced National Health Literacy Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure that all Americans have basic health literacy skills to function effectively as patients and health care consumers. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2424is/xml/BILLS-110s2424is.xml 2007-12-06 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.