3.0.0 3571 2020-02-10T17:02:40Z 2020-02-10T17:02:40Z Senate S S 2008-09-24 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-25T01:21:51Z 2008-09-24 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-09-24 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9423) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-09-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ N Health Access to health care Citizen participation Community development Community health services Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Education Environmental Protection Environmental health Federal aid to education Health surveys Higher education Infrastructure Land use Public Lands and Natural Resources Risk Urban affairs Urban planning Health 00 2008-09-24 Introduced in Senate 2008-12-31T16:40:03Z Health Impact Assessments Act of 2008 or the HIA Act of 2008 - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study to determine the best practices, standardized tools, and models for using health impact assessments as a method to promote health and reduce health disparities through social policy, land use, the built environment, and other public policies and projects.

Requires the Comptroller General to review: (1) the positive and negative health consequences of federal policies and programs; and (2) how to consider health impact assessments for any federal, state, local project that involves federal funding or work performed by the federal government.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award a grant to an institution of higher education to: (1) provide for expertise on health impact assessment to states, local health departments, metropolitan planning organizations, and local planning departments; (2) collect and disseminate best practices and provide technical assistance and training about the scope and uses of health impact assessments related to community planning and policy making; (3) develop necessary data and evidence to inform health impact assessments and land use and community design and other broad policy decisions; and (4) carry out a demonstration project to establish and implement effective processes and models for designing and administering health impact assessments.

Requires the Director to expand CDC's capacity to promote the health impact assessment processes, including by developing guidance for assessing the public participation and potential health effects of social policy decisions.

]]> HIA Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Health Impact Assessments Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced HIA Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to stimulate social policy and community environments to improve health by encouraging policies and programs to improve community health by policy and design, and for other purposes. Display Title HIA Act of 2008 Introduced in Senate 2008-09-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3571is/xml/BILLS-110s3571is.xml 2008-09-24 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.