IMPACT Act

Bill: 108-hr-716
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Agricultural colleges
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholism
Authorization
Bicycles
Block grants
Cardiovascular diseases
Child health
Child nutrition
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Curricula
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Depressed areas
Diabetes
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug therapy
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Ethnic relations
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Exercise
Families
Family medicine
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Food relief
Food service
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grocery trade
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Hereditary diseases
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human behavior
Hunger
Income tax
Indian medical care
International Affairs
Internet
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Lifestyle
Marketing
Medical education
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mental health
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Nutrition
Obesity
Occupational health and safety
Parent and child
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Prejudice
Preventive medicine
Public health administration
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Quality of care
Quality of life
Recreation
Recreation centers
Research grants
Rural health
School health programs
School lunch program
School personnel
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Smoking
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Stress (Psychology)
Students
Sunset legislation
Tax incentives
Taxation
Teacher education
Teleconferencing
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Volunteer workers
Walking
Web sites
Weight loss

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act (IMPACT Act) - Amends the Public Health Service Act to address issues of overweight and obesity. 
 Modifies an existing grant program funding the training of health profession personnel to include the treatment of overweight and obesity among categories to which the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to give special consideration. Creates a grant program to fund the training of health professionals to: (1) treat and prevent obesity; and (2) aid people who are overweight. 
Creates grant programs at the local level to promote increased physical activity and improved nutrition. Targets partnerships with businesses, schools, senior centers, day care facilities and other institutions.
Expands an existing coordinated school health program to include grants for the development of programs which focus on healthy lifestyle, including balanced diet and physical activity. 
Permits the use of preventive health and health services block grants for community education programs which promote healthy eating and exercise habits. Directs the Secretary to consider geographic diversity in issuing such grants and to ensure that such grants focus on physical activity and food-based research. 
Creates a Medicare demonstration project to reduce obesity and other chronic disease risks in older Americans.
Makes grants available to local healthcare delivery systems for overweight and obesity treatment and prevention demonstration programs.
Makes grants available for a national campaign to change children's health behaviors.
Promoting Healthy Eating Behaviors in Youth Act - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award competitive grants to States, political subdivisions of States, and other entities for the implementation of State and community-based intervention programs to promote good nutrition, including in children and adolescents. Sets forth a sunset date for such grants of five years after the enactment of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in House