Title: Recognizing the importance of sleep health and expressing support for the designation of the week of March 13 to March 19, 2022, as "Sleep Awareness Week".
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution supports the designation of Sleep Awareness Week.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 984 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 984

 Recognizing the importance of sleep health and expressing support for 
 the designation of the week of March 13 to March 19, 2022, as ``Sleep 
                           Awareness Week''.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2022

    Mr. Raskin (for himself, Ms. Dean, and Mr. Bacon) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

_______________________________________________________________________

                               RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the importance of sleep health and expressing support for 
 the designation of the week of March 13 to March 19, 2022, as ``Sleep 
                           Awareness Week''.

Whereas sleep is essential for health, well-being, and safety;
Whereas advancing advocacy and promotion of evidence-based sleep health 
        practices will improve the general health of the public;
Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has changed, and in some cases disrupted, 
        individuals' sleep health and sleep practices;
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise that most adults 
        need at least 7 hours of sleep per night;
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in 2016 that more 
        than one-third of all adults in the United States sleep less than 7 
        hours per night on a regular basis;
Whereas the National Sleep Foundation's 2020 Sleep in America Poll found that 44 
        percent of Americans say they feel sleepy between 2 and 4 days per week 
        and 28 percent reporting daytime fatigue 5 days per week;
Whereas numerous studies have found that Black Americans are less likely than 
        their White counterparts to get adequate sleep, and that Black Americans 
        may also be more likely to get lower quality sleep;
Whereas Congress established the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in 
        1993 to foster the coordination of sleep and circadian research within 
        the National Institutes of Health and other Federal agencies;
Whereas for over two decades, the National Sleep Foundation has organized Sleep 
        Awareness Week to promote the benefits of healthy sleep and its 
        importance to overall health and well-being; and
Whereas numerous States and organizations across the Nation recognize and 
        participate in Sleep Awareness Week: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the importance of sleep health as a way to 
        increase overall health and well-being;
            (2) supports the designation of a ``Sleep Awareness Week'';
            (3) supports the goals and efforts of Sleep Awareness Week;
            (4) encourages public health officials, health care 
        providers, educators, and parents to do their part to promote 
        adequate sleep;
            (5) encourages the people of the United States to 
        prioritize their sleep health, practice good habits for sleep 
        health, and discuss their sleep with health care professionals 
        (as needed); and
            (6) recognizes the continued importance of--
                    (A) policies to improve sleep health; and
                    (B) understanding and reducing sleep health 
                disparities.
                                 <all>