HeLP America Act

Bill: 109-hr-5951
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accident prevention
Administrative procedure
Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Ambulatory care
Anxiety
Business records
Child health
Child nutrition
Chronically ill
Cigarettes
Coinsurance
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deceptive advertising
Dental care
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Diet
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug approvals
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Exercise
Families
Federal Trade Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal preemption
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fraud
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health counseling
Health education
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Income tax
Independent regulatory commissions
Indexing (Economic policy)
Intellectual property
Judicial review
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Lifestyle
Local laws
Managed care
Marketing
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental depression
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nicotine
Nutrition
Obesity
Packaging
Pharmaceutical research
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Physicians
Poor children
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Product counterfeiting
Product safety
Public health
Public service advertising
Restaurants
School health programs
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Sleep disorders
Smokeless tobacco
Smoking
Smoking and youth
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Standards
State laws
Stress (Psychology)
Surveys
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Tobacco
Tobacco industry
User charges
Vegetables
Vending machines
Warning labels
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Sets forth provisions regarding healthy eating in schools, including: (1) limiting foods of minimal nutritional value sold in schools; and (2) providing for healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants.
 
Healthy Workforce Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to: (1) allow a wellness program credit for employers; (2) remove the reduction in the highest tax rate applicable for taxable years after 2000; and (3) exclude from an employee's income the fees paid by an employer to an athletic or fitness facility on the employee's behalf.
 
Provides for grants to promote individual and community health and to prevent the incidence of chronic disease.
 
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) regulate tobacco products (through the Food and Drug Administration); and (2) establish the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. Sets forth tobacco product standards and registration, recordkeeping, reporting, manufacturer and importer user fee, labeling, advertising, and marketing requirements.
 
Requires vending machines and certain restaurants to provide nutritional information about each food offered, including the number of calories.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to provide coverage for certain counseling and screening services. Requires the Secretary to encourage a state program to utilize school-based health centers to deliver primary care to children eligible for federal medical assistance.
 
Establishes the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation efforts and other efforts required by this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct research on obesity prevention, treatment, and control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1554)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House