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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9982 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9982

To require the Office of Children's Health Protection to be maintained 
  within the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2024

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Evans, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Ms. Norton, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Ms. Tlaib, 
  Mr. Moulton, Ms. Bush, and Mr. Goldman of New York) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL

 
To require the Office of Children's Health Protection to be maintained 
  within the Environmental Protection Agency, 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 ``Children's Health Protection Act of 
2024''.

SEC. 2. OFFICE OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall maintain, within the Agency, the Office of Children's 
Health Protection.
    (b) Director.--
            (1) In general.--The Office shall be headed by a director.
            (2) Appointment.--The Director of the Office shall be 
        appointed by, and report to, the Administrator of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency. In making such appointment, 
        the Administrator shall take into consideration the 
        recommendations of the Children's Health Protection Advisory 
        Committee.
            (3) Co-chair of president's task force.--The Administrator 
        of the Environmental Protection Agency shall delegate to the 
        Director of the Office responsibility to serve as Co-Chair, on 
        behalf of the Administrator, of the President's Task Force on 
        Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children 
        established by Executive Order 13045 (62 Fed. Reg. 19885 et 
        seq.).
    (c) Duties.--The Director of the Office shall--
            (1) identify and assess environmental health risks and 
        safety risks that may disproportionately affect infants, 
        children, and adolescents;
            (2) work to ensure that Federal policies, programs, 
        activities, and standards address disproportionate risks to 
        infants, children, and adolescents that result from 
        environmental health risks or safety risks, including 
        consideration of the unique environmental justice concerns 
        affecting infants, children, and adolescents;
            (3) coordinate Federal research and programs, including 
        grant programs, to advance the activities described in 
        paragraphs (1) and (2); and
            (4) carry out national activities to--
                    (A) reduce negative environmental impacts on 
                infants, children, and adolescents through involvement 
                in rulemaking, policy, enforcement actions, research, 
                and applications of science that focuses on prenatal 
                and childhood vulnerabilities;
                    (B) help protect infants, children, and adolescents 
                through promoting and issuing guidance for safe 
                chemicals management;
                    (C) coordinate community-based programs to 
                eliminate threats to infants', children's, and 
                adolescents' health;
                    (D) increase the environmental health literacy of 
                health care providers through support of pediatric 
                environmental health specialty units;
                    (E) evaluate and communicate trends in 
                environmental contaminants that may contribute to 
                childhood disease;
                    (F) develop and publish resources for local 
                educational agencies to establish, maintain, or enhance 
                a school environmental health program; and
                    (G) otherwise protect infants, children, and 
                adolescents from environmental health risks or safety 
                risks.
    (d) Transition.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall make such changes to the Office of Children's Health 
Protection of the Environmental Protection Agency, as in existence on 
the day before the date of enactment of this Act, as may be necessary 
for such Office to become the Office required by subsection (a).
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $7,842,000 for fiscal year 2025 
and each subsequent fiscal year.

SEC. 3. CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall maintain an advisory committee, to be known as 
the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, to--
            (1) provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator 
        and other officials of the Environmental Protection Agency 
        regarding the programs and activities of the Office;
            (2) advise the Administrator and other officials of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency on regulations, research, and 
        communications related to infant's, children's and adolescent's 
        health; and
            (3) support the Environmental Protection Agency, including 
        the Office, in implementing under Executive Order 13045 and 
        other issues related to infants', children's, and adolescents' 
        health protection as deemed appropriate by the Administrator.
    (b) Applicability of FACA.--The Children's Health Protection 
Advisory Committee shall be subject to the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act (5 U.S.C. App.), except that the Children's Health Protection 
Advisory Committee shall be a permanent advisory committee and shall 
not terminate under section 14 of such Act.
    (c) Transition.--The President, acting through the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, shall make such changes to the 
Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee established pursuant to 
Executive Order 13045 (62 Fed. Reg. 19885; April 23, 1997) as may be 
necessary for such Advisory Committee to become the advisory committee 
required by this section.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) The term ``Children's Health Protection Advisory 
        Committee'' means the advisory committee maintained pursuant to 
        section 3.
            (2) The term ``local educational agency'' has the meaning 
        given to such term in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (3) The term ``Office'' means the Office of Children's 
        Health Protection maintained pursuant to section 2.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$13,200,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029.
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