Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act

Bill: 109-s-799
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advertising
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Beverages
Bicycles
Breast feeding
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community health services
Community organization
Conferences
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Curricula
Dairy products
Day care
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Diet
Discrimination
Economic statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal Trade Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human behavior
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian children
Indian medical care
Infants
Labor and Employment
Law
Marketing
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical research
Minorities
Minority health
Obesity
Oils and fats
Parent and child
Pedestrians
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Playgrounds
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Restrictive trade practices
School health programs
School personnel
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Strategic planning
Sugar
Teacher education
Television and children
Trails
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Vegetables
Vending machines
Walking
Water Resources Development
Weight loss
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: 
Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Federal Government coordinates efforts to develop, implement, and enforce policies to prevent obesity among children and youth.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a Federal Leadership Commission to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
 
Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the effect of Federal nutrition assistance programs and agricultural policies on the prevention of childhood obesity.
 
 Sets forth procedures to establish and enforce guidelines for nutritional food and physical activity advertising and marketing to prevent childhood obesity.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants to: (1) implement a State children's obesity prevention and control plan; and (2) disseminate childhood obesity prevention evidence-based practices to individuals, families, schools, organizations and communities.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award grants to develop obesity prevention behavior change curricula for early childhood home visitation programs and afterschool programs; and (2) establish and implement activities to prevent obesity by encouraging healthy nutrition choices and physical activity in schools.
 
Provides for grants to promote good nutrition and physical activity for students in schools and children in communities.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to support the training of early childhood professionals about obesity prevention.
 
 Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify research that addresses the prevention of childhood obesity.
 
Requires the Secretary to support research (through grants) to promote physical activity in children through enhancement of the built environment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3670-3674)
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3670)
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate