Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1442
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 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
Clinical trials
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
Environmental research
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
Genetic research
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Indian medical care
Informed consent (Medical law)
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: 2005-07-21
text: 
Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 - 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. Directs the Secretary, in establishing and operating the Network, to:: (1) expand and coordinate among existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) provide for public access to an electronic national database on priority chronic conditions and relevant environmental and other factors; (3) operate a National Environmental Health Rapid Response Service to develop strategies to respond to and investigate higher than expected incidence and prevalence rates of priority chronic conditions and environmental exposures; (4) award grants for the establishment and operation of State Environmental Health Networks; (5) develop minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting for State Networks; (6) enter 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; and (7) enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment and operation of regional biomonitoring laboratories.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an Advisory Committee for the Network; (2) award John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students enrolled in an accredited school of public health or medicine; and (3) expand the scope and amount of biomonitoring data collected by CDC on environmental exposures.
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools or programs of public heath to establish and operate Centers of Excellence for research and demonstration with respect to chronic conditions and relevant environmental factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8667-8868)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate