Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to conduct and coordinate a research program on hormone disruption, and for other purposes.

4/15/2008--Introduced.
Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to:
(1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems;
(2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and
(3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.
Requires the program to provide for:
(1) the collection and dissemination of scientifically valid information on human health effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants, the extent of human exposure to such pollutants, and the exposure of wildlife species to such pollutants and possible associated health effects; and
(2) research on mechanisms by which such pollutants interact with biological systems, testing for hormone disruption, and the identity and fate of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment.
Gives the Director principal responsibility for conducting and coordinating research on the unintended effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants on human health and the environment.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission. Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel to make recommendations on the design and implementation of the program.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Louise Slaughter [D, NY-28]
• and 21 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Thomas Allen [D, ME-1]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D, NY-22]
  • Rep. Michael Honda [D, CA-15]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Michael McNulty [D, NY-21]
  • Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Hilda Solis [D, CA-32]
  • Rep. Christopher Van Hollen [D, MD-8]
  • Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 4 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Science and Technology
  • House Science and Technology
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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
April 15, 2008

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• Apr 16, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
• Apr 16, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Apr 15, 2008: Referred to House Science and Technology
• Apr 15, 2008: Referred to House Natural Resources
• Apr 15, 2008: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Apr 15, 2008: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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.
• Apr 15, 2008: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E615)
• Introduced on Apr 15, 2008.

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