Post 9/11 Health Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4974
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health surveys
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Mass rapid transit
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
New York City
Occupational health and safety
Paramedical personnel
Physical examinations
Police
Refuse and refuse disposal
Rescue work
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
September 11, 2001
Social Welfare
State employees
Tax rates
Taxation
Terrorism
Toxicology
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Victims of terrorism
Virginia
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Post 9/11 Health Protection Act of 2004 - Establishes in the Treasury the September 11 Emergency Personnel Trust Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase by one percent the tax imposed on adjusted gross income that exceeds $1,000,000 for married individuals filing jointly or that exceeds $500,000 in any other case. Appropriates amounts equal to the taxes received because of such increase to the Fund. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award from such Fund grants or cooperative agreements to specified programs, including one established by the New York City Fire Department, to carry out screening and clinical examinations and long-term health monitoring for covered individuals, including emergency service personnel, clean up workers, and residents affected by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in New York City. Limits such monitoring to 20 years and 40,000 individuals. Allows the Secretary to establish a similar program for those affected by the September 11, 2001, Pentagon attack.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct or support diagnostic or treatment research for certain adverse health conditions considered to be associated with the terrorist attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House