IMPACT Act

Bill: 110-hr-2677
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Bicycles
Block grants
Cardiovascular diseases
Child health
Child nutrition
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Curricula
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Depressed areas
Diabetes
Disabled
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Ethnic relations
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Exercise
Families
Family medicine
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Food relief
Food service
Fruit
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grocery trade
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Hereditary diseases
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human behavior
Hunger
Indian medical care
Internet
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Lifestyle
Marketing
Medical education
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mental health
Minorities
Minority health
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Nutrition
Obesity
Occupational health and safety
Parent and child
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Prejudice
Preventive medicine
Public health administration
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Quality of care
Quality of life
Recreation
Recreation centers
Research grants
Rural health
School health programs
School lunch program
School personnel
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Stress (Psychology)
Students
Sunset legislation
Teacher education
Teleconferencing
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Vegetables
Volunteer workers
Walking
Web sites
Weight loss

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Improved Nutrition and Physical Activity Act or the IMPACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand an existing grant program for training for health profession students to include the treatment of individuals who are overweight, obese, or have eating disorders. 
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for the training of primary care physicians and other health professions on how to identify, treat, and prevent obesity or eating disorders and aid individuals who are overweight or obese or who suffer from eating disorders. 
Requires the Secretary, acting though the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants for the planning and implementation of programs that promote healthy eating behaviors and physical activity. 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, to provide for the collection and analysis of data for determining the fitness levels and energy expenditures of children and data collected as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to review the research to determine if the information might be important for the health disparities report. 
 
 Permits states to use preventive health and health services block grants for activities and community education programs designed to address and prevent obesity and eating disorders. 
Requires the Secretary to report to the relevant congressional committees on: (1) the causes and health implications of being overweight, obese, or having an eating disorder; and (2) the effectiveness of campaigns to change children's behaviors and reduce obesity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House