[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1280 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1280

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a biennial report 
  on nutrition and health by the Surgeon General of the Public Health 
                    Service, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 22 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

 Mr. Harkin (for himself and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a biennial report 
  on nutrition and health by the Surgeon General of the Public Health 
                    Service, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nutrition and Health Information 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF REQUIREMENT OF BIENNIAL REPORT ON NUTRITION 
              AND HEALTH.

    Title XVII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300u et 
seq.), as amended by section 302 of Public Law 102-531 (106 Stat. 
3483), is amended by adding at the end the following section:

            ``biennial report regarding nutrition and health

    ``Sec. 1709. (a) Biennial Report.--The Secretary shall require the 
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to prepare biennial 
reports on the relationship between nutrition and health. Such reports 
may, with respect to such relationship, include any recommendations of 
the Secretary and the Surgeon General regarding the public health.
    ``(b) Submission to Congress.--The Secretary shall ensure that, not 
later than February 1 of 1995 and of every second year thereafter, a 
report under subsection (a) is submitted to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and 
Human Resources of the Senate.
    ``(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1998.''.

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