HeLP America Act

Bill: 110-hr-2633
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Bicycles
Breast feeding
Child health
Child nutrition
Cigarettes
Commerce
Consumer education
Diet
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Families
Family leave
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospitals
Income tax
Infants
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical research
Mental health services
Obesity
Pedestrians
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Restaurants
Salt
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking and youth
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Tobacco industry
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Vending machines
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention America Act or the HeLP America Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene a task force on childhood obesity.

Provides for: (1) healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants; (2) the establishment of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to certify a hospital as a baby friendly hospital/center for breastfeeding excellence; and (3) programs to prevent youth problem behaviors.

Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a wellness program credit for employers; and (2) exclude from an employee's income the fees paid by an employer to an athletic or fitness facility on the employee's behalf.

Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee on Community Sports Programs for Individuals with Disabilities. 

Provides incentives for states to ensure the safety and convenience of all users of a transportation system, including pedestrians and bicyclists. 

Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to require employers to provide lactation periods and lactation facilities to permit employees to breastfeed eligible children. 

Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act or the PLAY Every Day Act - Provides for the development of a tool to measure community barriers to participating in physical activity and provides for grants to plan model communities of play.

Requires certain restaurants and vending machines to provide nutritional information about each food offered, including the number of calories.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) impose penalties on the tobacco industry for failure to achieve specified goals to reduce youth cigarette use; and (2) encourage a state program to recognize school-based health centers as a model of delivery for primary care for children eligible for federal medical assistance. 

Establishes the HeLP (Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention) America Trust Fund to fund smoking cessation drugs and other programs required by this Act.

Provides for research on obesity, physical activity in schools, and dietary sodium intake.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1235)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House