[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3509 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3509

   To provide for a report regarding the effects that environmental 
                    factors have on women's health.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 1996

  Ms. Furse introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for a report regarding the effects that environmental 
                    factors have on women's health.

    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 ``Women's Health Environmental Factors 
Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting 
through the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, shall submit to the Congress a report in accordance with the 
following:
            (1) The report shall summarize the body of scientific 
        knowledge on the effects that environmental factors have on 
        women's health. The report shall include descriptions of the 
        known effects of environmental factors on breast cancer, on 
        immune dysfunction, and on compounds that mimic human estrogen.
            (2) The report shall specify an agenda for the conduct and 
        support of research by such Director on the effects that 
        environmental factors have on women's health. The agenda shall 
        specify the categories of research that should receive 
        priority. In the development of the agenda, the summary 
        prepared under paragraph (1) shall be considered, including 
        consideration of areas of research identified by the summary as 
        having received insufficient study.
    (b) Date for Submission of Report.--The report under subsection (a) 
shall be submitted to the Congress not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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