Border Economic Recovery Act for Health and the Environment

Bill: 108-hr-3284
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2003-10-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Boundaries
Building construction
California
Canada
Cancer
Child nutrition
Colonias
Community development
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Defense budgets
Development credit institutions
Diabetes
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Engineers
Environmental health
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Environmentally induced diseases
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to the aged
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Florida
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health information systems
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Immigration
Industrial pollution
Infrastructure
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Lead poisoning
Materials
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical screening
Mexico
Military bases
Minorities
New Mexico
Preventive medicine
Public health
Raw materials
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research and development
Research centers
Research grants
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Sewage treatment
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Sustainable development
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Texas
Tuberculosis
WIC program
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Water use
Watersheds
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Border Economic Recovery Act for Health and the Environment - Amends the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act to authorize appropriations.
Amends the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 with respect to funding for State-furnished emergency health services for undocumented aliens in the United States-Mexico border area ("border area").
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, with respect to the special supplemental nutrition program, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize partnerships for increased coordination of food and nutrition assistance for residents of colonias in the border area.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase funding for grants and loans for water and waste facilities in communities whose residents face significant health risks.
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to selected colleges in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to provide community resource centers to serve colonias.
Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to funding of: (1) tuberculosis prevention activities in the border area; and (2) interdisciplinary, community-based linkages and centers addressing unmet health care needs in such area and in the State of Florida.
Authorizes funding for the Border Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (concerning youth substance abuse prevention in the border area).
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make awards of grants or cooperative agreements to: (1) conduct cancer screenings in the border area and report diagnosis information to the appropriate State cancer registry; (2) expand a diabetes study; and (3) support community-based sexually transmitted disease control programs.
Provides funding for the Department of HUD's Healthy Homes Initiative, reserving specified amounts for border area activities.
Provides funding for: (1) the Materials Corridor Partnership Initiative; (2) the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy; (3) environmental infrastructure projects carried out by the International Boundary and Water Commission (and requires a long-range water supply strategic plan); (4) the U.S. contribution to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation; (5) innovative water conservation programs; (6) the International Consortium for the Environment established at Brooks Air Force Base; (7) the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission for environmental infrastructure projects; and (8) grants for high-priority projects carried out through the North American Development Bank's Border Environmental Infrastructure Fund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, International Relations, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-10-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Introduced in House