Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2399
Sponsor: Sen. Fitzgerald, Peter [R-IL]
Introduced: 2004-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Bikeways
Child health
Child nutrition
Commemorations
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Curricula
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Employee health benefits
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fringe benefits
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Greenways
Grocery trade
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Indian medical care
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nutrition
Occupational health and safety
Oils and fats
Open space lands
Parent and child
Parks
Pedestrians
Physical education and training
Potable water
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Quality of care
Recreation centers
Research grants
Restaurants
Salt
School health programs
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Sugar
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Vegetables
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: 
Healthy Lifestyles Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and implement activities to increase physical activity in schools, work sites, and communities. Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): (1) to support physical education programs in schools and training for school personnel; (2) with the Secretary of Labor, to develop work sites that encourage employee participation in physical activity; and (3) with the Secretaries of Transportation and Interior, to implement projects to design pedestrian zones, cycling paths, and open space areas linking parks with residential communities.
 
Amends the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 to require the Secretary to: (1) enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to develop and publish Dietary Guidelines for Americans; (2) ensure that such guidelines serve as the basis of any Federal food, nutrition, or health program; and (3) revise the food guide pyramid.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to make recommendations on disseminating dietary information and nutrition guidelines; and (2) publish a plan to implement such recommendations.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to improve the consumption of nutritional foods, including by: (1) promoting the intake of nutritional foods; and (2) conducting outreach to grocery stores to increase the availability of healthy foods and beverages.
 
Requires the Secretary to coordinate research on obesity and award grants to: (1) support State comprehensive obesity prevention and control programs; (2) enable States to provide public health surveillance, prevention and control activities; and (3) assist in implementing a national strategy for obesity prevention and control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5092-5094)
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5091-5092)
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate