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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2339 
To require the Office of Children’s Health Protection to be maintained within 
the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 25, 2025 
Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. 
TLAIB, Mr. MAGAZINER, Mr. COHEN, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
TOKUDA, Mrs. HAYES, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. NORTON, Mr. JOHNSON 
of Georgia, Mr. CARSON, Ms. DEXTER, Ms. CHU, Mr. EVANS of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. SORENSEN, and Mr. THANEDAR) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Children’s Health Pro-
tection Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. OFFICE OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH PROTECTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental 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 Adminis-
trator 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 En-
vironmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Chil-
dren established by Executive Order 13045. 
(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, pro-
grams, activities, and standards address dispropor-
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tionate risks to infants, children, and adolescents 
that result from environmental health risks or safety 
risks, including consideration of the unique environ-
mental 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); 
(4) advise other offices of the Environmental 
Protection Agency and other Federal agencies on all 
matters related to and concerning environmental 
health risks to infants, children, and adolescents; 
(5) carry out other duties as the Administrator 
determines appropriate, including any responsibil-
ities of the Administrator under Executive Order 
13045; and 
(6) 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; 
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(B) help protect infants, children, and ado-
lescents through promoting and issuing guid-
ance for safe chemicals management; 
(C) coordinate community-based programs 
to eliminate threats to infants’, children’s, and 
adolescents’ health; 
(D) increase the environmental health lit-
eracy of health care providers through support 
of pediatric environmental health specialty 
units; 
(E) evaluate and communicate trends in 
environmental contaminants that may con-
tribute 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 Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall make such changes to the 
Office of Children’s Health Protection of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, as in existence on the day be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act, as may be nec-
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essary 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 2026 and each subsequent fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 3. CHILDREN’S HEALTH PROTECTION ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency shall maintain an advisory 
committee, to be known as the Children’s Health Protec-
tion Advisory Committee, to— 
(1) provide advice and recommendations to the 
Administrator and other officials of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency regarding the programs 
and activities of the Office; 
(2) advise the Administrator and other officials 
of the Environmental Protection Agency on regula-
tions, research, and communications related to in-
fant’s, children’s and adolescent’s health; and 
(3) support the Environmental Protection 
Agency, including the Office, in implementing Exec-
utive Order 13045 and other issues related to in-
fants’, children’s, and adolescents’ health protection 
as deemed appropriate by the Administrator. 
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