Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5809
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animals
Child health
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental estrogens
Environmental health
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Hormones
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Medical research
Pollution control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Wildlife conservation
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems; (2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.

Requires the program to provide for: (1) the collection and dissemination of scientifically valid information on human health effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants, the extent of human exposure to such pollutants, and the exposure of wildlife species to such pollutants and possible associated health effects; and (2) research on mechanisms by which such pollutants interact with biological systems, testing for hormone disruption, and the identity and fate of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment.

Gives the Director principal responsibility for conducting and coordinating research on the unintended effects of hormone-disrupting pollutants on human health and the environment.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission. Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel to make recommendations on the design and implementation of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science and Technology, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E615)
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House