IMPACT Act

Bill: 108-s-1172
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
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
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
Indian medical care
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
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Stress (Psychology)
Students
Sunset legislation
Teacher education
Teleconferencing
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Volunteer workers
Walking
Web sites
Weight loss

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act (or the IMPACT Act) - Amends the Public Health Service Act to address issues of overweight, obesity, and eating disorders.
Expands an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include the treatment of overweight, obesity, and eating disorders. Creates a grant program for training for health professionals in such areas.
Creates grant programs at the local level to promote increased physical activity and improved nutrition (in place of current law, which provides for grants to promote childhood nutrition and physical activity). Targets partnerships with businesses, schools, senior centers, day care facilities and other institutions. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to give priority in awarding grants to recipients who provide matching contributions. Permits the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to provide technical assistance to grantees.
Allows the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide for the collection and analysis of certain data, including data collected as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Permits the Secretary to: (1) make grants to States, public entities, and nonprofits to further the collection and analysis of such data; and (2) provide technical assistance to such grantees.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to request that the Institute of Medicine conduct a study or contract for a study on the food and nutrition programs run by the Department of Agriculture.
Permits the use of preventive health and health services block grants for community education programs which promote healthy eating and exercise habits.
Establishes reporting requirements with regard to: (1) obesity research; and (2) the national campaign to change children's health behaviors and reduce obesity.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - 
Title I: Training Grants - 
(Sec. 101) Amends the Public Health Service Act to include in the training grant program for health profession students the treatment of persons (including children) who are overweight or obese and at risk for serious medical conditions, and persons who suffer from eating disorders. 
(Sec. 102) Authorizes health professional training grant appropriations through FY 2007. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to train primary care physicians and other health professionals in obesity and eating disorder identification, treatment, and prevention. 

Title II: Community-Based Solutions to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Nutrition - 
(Sec. 201) Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to make grants (four-year maximum) to eligible entities to promote increased physical activity and improved nutrition through: (1) community-based activities; (2) school-based activities; and (3) health care delivery systems. Permits grant targeting to at-risk populations, including youth, adolescent girls, and health disparity and underserved populations. Authorizes grant priority for entities that provide matching contributions. Requires the Director of the Centers to report on program effectiveness within six years of enactment of this Act. Defines specified terms. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2008, with specified set-asides for eating disorder activities. 
(Sec. 202) Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to: (1) provide for collection and analysis of data to determine child and youth fitness and energy expenditure levels, including data collected as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; (2) make grants to States, public entities, and nonprofits to further such data collection and analysis; and (3) provide grantees with technical assistance. 
(Sec. 203) Establishes reporting requirements respecting: (1) health disparities; (2) obesity research; and (3) the national campaign to change children's health behaviors and reduce obesity. 
(Sec. 204) Permits the use of preventive health and health services block grants for healthy eating and exercise education programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: By Senator Gregg from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report under authority of the order of the Senate of 03/12/04. Report No. 108-245. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: By Senator Gregg from Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions filed written report under authority of the order of the Senate of 03/12/04. Report No. 108-245. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16094-16100; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S16094-16099)
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16094-16100; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S16094-16099)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 417.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Gregg with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Gregg with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7246-7249)
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7246)
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate