Healthy Places Act of 2007

To require Federal agencies to support health impact assessments and take other actions to improve health and the environmental quality of communities, and for other purposes.

1/10/2007--Introduced.
Healthy Places Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group to discuss environmental health concerns, particularly concerns disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health at CDC focused on advancing the field of health impact assessment. Requires the Director to develop guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to:
(1) establish a program to provide funding and technical assistance to state or local governments affected or potentially affected by an activity or proposed activity to prepare health impact assessments; and
(2) establish and maintain a health impact assessment database. Requires the Director to establish a grant program to award grants to state or local communities for environmental health improvement activities. Requires grantees to:
(1) establish a planning and prioritizing council; and
(2) conduct environmental health assessment. Requires the Secretary to provide grants to public or private nonprofit institutions to conduct and coordinate research on the built environment and its influence on individual and population-based health.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Hilda Solis [D, CA-32]
• and 4 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Robert Brady [D, PA-1]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Barbara Lee [D, CA-9]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 3 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.398

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
January 10, 2007

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• Apr 23, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3758-3759)
• Feb 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
• Feb 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
• Feb 02, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jan 10, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Jan 10, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.1067
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Related Issue Areas:

• Medicine
• Access to health care
• Budgets
• Citizen participation
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• Community health services
• Data banks
• Environmental assessment
• Environmental health
• Environmental monitoring
• Environmental protection
• Environmental research
• Epidemiology
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Federal aid to health facilities
• Federal aid to research
• Federal-local relations
• Federal-state relations
• Health education
• Health planning
• Health policy
• Health surveys
• Housing
• Land use
• Medical care
• Medical research
• Minorities
• Minority health
• Natural resources
• Politics and government
• Quality of life
• Research grants
• Science policy
• State and local government
• Technology
• Transportation

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