Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act

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.

6/7/2007--Introduced.
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.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Tom Udall [D, NM-3]
• and 5 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. Patrick Murphy [D, PA-8]
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Committees

• House Transportation and Infrastructure
• 11 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Administration
  • House Transportation and Infrastructure
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Oversight and Government Reform
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.2633

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
June 07, 2007

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• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
• Jun 12, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 08, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House House Administration
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jun 07, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Jun 07, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1235)
• Introduced on Jun 07, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Medicine
• Bicycles
• Breast feeding
• Budgets
• 58 more
• Business
• Child health
• Child nutrition
• Children
• Cigarettes
• Consumer education
• Consumers
• Diet
• Disabled
• Drug abuse
• Drug therapy
• Education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Employee benefit plans
• Executive departments
• Family leave
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to education
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Fees
• Food
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Health policy
• Health surveys
• Higher education
• Hospitals
• Income tax
• Infants
• Juvenile delinquency
• Labor
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical research
• Mental health services
• Obesity
• Pedestrians
• Physical education and training
• Physical fitness
• Preschool education
• Preventive medicine
• Restaurants
• Salt
• School health programs
• Science policy
• Smoking and youth
• Sports
• Sports facilities
• Tax credits
• Tax exclusion
• Taxation
• Tobacco industry
• Traffic accidents and safety
• Transportation
• Transportation safety
• Vending machines
• Welfare
• Women

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