Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2953
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Alzheimer's disease
Asthma
Autism
Autoimmune diseases
Birth defects
Cancer
Cerebral palsy
Chemicals
Child health
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Directories
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Indian medical care
Labor and Employment
Law
Local employees
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Mentally disabled
Minorities
Minority health
Multiple sclerosis
Native Americans
Nervous system diseases
Parkinson's disease
Pesticides
Pollution
Poverty
Preventive medicine
Public health
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Respiratory diseases
Right of privacy
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
State employees
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2004 - 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 (CDC), to establish and operate the Coordinated Environmental Health Network (the Network), including by: (1) identifying, expanding, and coordinating among existing Federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) providing for public access to an electronic national database on the incidence and prevalence of specified priority chronic conditions and relevant environmental and other factors; (3) operating a National Environmental Health Rapid Response Service to develop strategies to rapidly respond to, and conduct investigations of, higher than expected incidence and prevalence rates of priority chronic conditions and environmental exposures; (4) awarding grants to States, local governments, territories, and Indian tribes to establish, maintain, and operate State Environmental Health Networks; (5) developing minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting for State Networks, including mechanisms for allowing States to set priorities and allocate resources accordingly; (6) establishing an Advisory Committee for the Network; (7) awarding John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students who are enrolled in an accredited school of public health or medicine; and (8) entering into a cooperative agreement with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in State and local health departments.
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools or programs of public health to establish, maintain, and operate Centers of Excellence for research and demonstration with respect to chronic conditions and relevant environmental factors, which may include investigating causal connections between chronic conditions and environmental factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10852-10855)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10851-10852)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate