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Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Health Empowerment Zone Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Findings.
Sec. 4. Designation of health empowerment zones.
Sec. 5. Assistance to those seeking designation.
Sec. 6. Benefits of designation.
Sec. 7. Definition.
Sec. 8. Authorization of appropriations.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Numerous studies and reports, including the National 
        Healthcare Disparities Report and Unequal Treatment, the 2002 
        Institute of Medicine Report, document the extensiveness to 
        which health disparities exist across the country.
            (2) These studies have found that, on average, racial and 
        ethnic minorities are disproportionately afflicted with chronic 
        and acute conditions--such as cancer, diabetes, and 
        hypertension--and suffer worse health outcomes, worse health 
        status, and higher mortality rates than their White 
        counterparts.
            (3) Several recent studies also show that health 
        disparities are a function of not only access to health care, 
        but also the social determinants of health--including the 
        environment, the physical structure of communities, nutrition 
        and food options, educational attainment, employment, race, 
        ethnicity, geography, and language preference--that directly 
        and indirectly affect the health, health care, and wellness of 
        individuals and communities.
            (4) Integrally involving and fully supporting the 
        communities most affected by health inequities in the 
        assessment, planning, launch, and evaluation of health 
        disparity elimination efforts is among the leading 
        recommendations made to adequately address and ultimately 
        reduce health disparities.
            (5) Recommendations also include supporting the efforts of 
        community stakeholders from a broad cross section--including, 
        but not limited to local businesses, local departments of 
        commerce, education, labor, urban planning, and transportation, 
        and community-based and other nonprofit organizations--to find 
        areas of common ground around health disparity elimination and 
        collaborate to improve the overall health and wellness of a 
        community and its residents.

SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF HEALTH EMPOWERMENT ZONES.

    (a) In General.--At the request of an eligible community 
partnership, the Secretary may designate an eligible area as a health 
empowerment zone.
    (b) Eligibility Criteria.--
            (1) Eligible community partnership.--A community 
        partnership is eligible to submit a request under this section 
        if the partnership--
                    (A) demonstrates widespread public support from key 
                individuals and entities in the eligible area, 
                including State and local governments, nonprofit 
                organizations, and community and industry leaders, for 
                designation of the eligible area as a health 
                empowerment zone; and
                    (B) includes representatives of--
                            (i) a broad cross section of stakeholders 
                        and residents from communities in the eligible 
                        area experiencing disproportionate disparities 
                        in health status and health care; and
                            (ii) organizations, facilities, and 
                        institutions that have a history of working 
                        within and serving such communities.
            (2) Eligible area.--An area is eligible to be designated as 
        a health empowerment zone under this section if one or more 
        communities in the area experience disproportionate disparities 
        in health status and health care. In determining whether a 
        community experiences such disparities, the Secretary shall 
        consider the data collected by the Department of Health and 
        Human Services focusing on the following areas:
                    (A) Access to high-quality health services.
                    (B) Arthritis, osteoporosis, and chronic back 
                conditions.
                    (C) Cancer.
                    (D) Chronic kidney disease.
                    (E) Diabetes.
                    (F) Injury and violence prevention.
                    (G) Maternal, infant, and child health.
                    (H) Medical product safety.
                    (I) Mental health and mental disorders.
                    (J) Nutrition and overweight.
                    (K) Disability and secondary conditions.
                    (L) Educational and community-based health 
                programs.
                    (M) Environmental health.
                    (N) Family planning.
                    (O) Food safety.
                    (P) Health communication.
                    (Q) Health disease and stroke.
                    (R) HIV/AIDS.
                    (S) Immunization and infectious diseases.
                    (T) Occupational safety and health.
                    (U) Oral health.
                    (V) Physical activity and fitness.
                    (W) Public health infrastructure.
                    (X) Respiratory diseases.
                    (Y) Sexually transmitted diseases.
                    (Z) Substance abuse.
                    (AA) Tobacco use.
                    (BB) Vision and hearing.
    (c) Procedure.--
            (1) Request.--A request under subsection (a) shall--
                    (A) describe the bounds of the area to be 
                designated as a health empowerment zone and the process 
                used to select those bounds;
                    (B) demonstrate that the partnership submitting the 
                request is an eligible community partnership described 
                in subsection (b)(1);
                    (C) demonstrate that the area is an eligible area 
                described in subsection (b)(2);
                    (D) include a comprehensive assessment of 
                disparities in health status and health care experience 
                by one or more communities in the area;
                    (E) set forth--
                            (i) a vision and a set of values for the 
                        area; and
                            (ii) a comprehensive and holistic set of 
                        goals to be achieved in the area through 
                        designation as a health empowerment zone; and
                    (F) include a strategic plan for achieving the 
                goals described in subparagraph (E)(ii).
            (2) Approval.--Not later than 60 days after the receipt of 
        a request for designation of an area as a health empowerment 
        zone under this section, the Secretary shall approve or 
        disapprove the request.
    (d) Minimum Number.--The Secretary--
            (1) shall designate not more than 110 health empowerment 
        zones under this section; and
            (2) shall designate at least one health empowerment zone in 
        each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each 
        territory or possession of the United States.

SEC. 5. ASSISTANCE TO THOSE SEEKING DESIGNATION.

    At the request of any organization or entity seeking to submit a 
request under section 4(a), the Secretary shall provide technical 
assistance, and may award a grant, to assist such organization or 
entity--
            (1) to form an eligible community partnership described in 
        subsection (b)(1);
            (2) to complete a health assessment, including an 
        assessment of health disparities under subsection (c)(1)(D); or
            (3) to prepare and submit a request, including a strategic 
        plan, in accordance with section 4.

SEC. 6. BENEFITS OF DESIGNATION.

    (a) Priority.--In awarding any competitive grant, a Federal 
official shall give priority to any applicant that--
            (1) meets the eligibility criteria for the grant;
            (2) proposes to use the grant for activities in a health 
        empowerment zone; and
            (3) demonstrates that such activities will directly and 
        significantly further the goals of the strategic plan approved 
        for such zone under section 4.
    (b) Grants for Initial Implementation of Strategic Plan.--
            (1) In general.--Upon designating an eligible area as a 
        health empowerment zone at the request of an eligible community 
        partnership, the Secretary shall, subject to the availability 
        of appropriations, make a grant to the community partnership 
        for implementation of the strategic plan for such zone.
            (2) Grant period.--A grant under paragraph (1) for a health 
        empowerment zone shall be for a period of 2 years and may be 
        renewed, except that the total period of grants under paragraph 
        (1) for such zone may not exceed 10 years.
            (3) Limitation.--In awarding grants under this subsection, 
        the Secretary shall not give less priority to an applicant or 
        reduce the amount of a grant because the Secretary rendered 
        technical assistance or made a grant to the same applicant 
        under section 5.
            (4) Reporting.--The Secretary shall require each recipient 
        of a grant under this subsection to report to the Secretary not 
        less than every 6 months on the progress in implementing the 
        strategic plan for the health empowerment zone.

SEC. 7. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration and the Director of the Office of 
Minority Health, and in cooperation with the Director of the Office of 
Community Services and the Director of the National Center for Minority 
Health and Health Disparities.

SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$100,000,000 for fiscal year 2010.

Output: Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), at the request of a broad-based community partnership, to designate a community that experiences disproportionate disparities in health status and health care as a health empowerment zone. Requires federal officials to give priority in awarding competitive grants to grants used in or benefiting a health empowerment zone.

Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) technical assistance (or grants) to entities seeking to form a community partnership or obtain a health empowerment zone designation for a community; and (2) grants to community partnerships for implementation of the strategic plan for a health empowerment zone.


Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTORS TO POSSESS SATISFACTORY 
              RECORD OF INTEGRITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS.

    (a) Defense Contractors.--(1) Chapter 137 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2305a the following 
new section:
``Sec. 2305b. Contractor requirement for satisfactory record of 
              integrity and business ethics
    ``(a) In General.--No prospective contractor may be awarded a 
contract with an agency under this title unless the contracting officer 
for the contract determines that such prospective contractor has a 
satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics, including a 
record of satisfactory compliance with the law (including tax, labor 
and employment, environmental, antitrust, and consumer protection 
laws).
    ``(b) Information To Be Considered.--In making a determination as 
to whether a prospective contractor has a satisfactory record of 
integrity and business ethics, a contracting officer--
            ``(1) shall consider all relevant credible information, but 
        shall give the greatest weight to any violations of law that 
        have been adjudicated during the 3-year period preceding the 
        offer by the prospective contractor;
            ``(2) shall consider any administrative agreements entered 
        into with the prospective contractor if the prospective 
        contractor has taken corrective action after disclosing a 
        violation of law, and may consider such a contractor to be a 
        responsible contractor if the contractor has corrected the 
        conditions that led to the misconduct;
            ``(3) shall consider failure to comply with the terms of an 
        administrative agreement to be a lack of integrity and business 
        ethics under this section;
            ``(4) may consider other relevant information, such as 
        civil or administrative complaints or similar actions filed by 
        or on behalf of a Federal agency, board, or commission, if such 
        action reflects an adjudicated determination by the agency; and
            ``(5) shall consider the following in descending order of 
        importance:
                    ``(A) Convictions of and civil judgments rendered 
                against the prospective contractor for--
                            ``(i) commission of fraud or a criminal 
                        offense in connection with obtaining, 
                        attempting to obtain, or performing a Federal, 
                        State, or local contract or subcontract;
                            ``(ii) violation of Federal or State 
                        antitrust law relating to the submission of 
                        offers; or
                            ``(iii) commission of embezzlement, theft, 
                        forgery, bribery, falsification, or destruction 
                        of records, making false statement, tax 
                        evasion, or receiving stolen property.
                    ``(B) Indictments for the offenses described in 
                subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) With respect to tax, labor, employment, 
                environmental, antitrust, or consumer protection laws--
                            ``(i) Federal or State felony convictions;
                            ``(ii) adverse Federal court judgments in 
                        civil cases brought by the United States;
                            ``(iii) adverse decisions by a Federal 
                        administrative law judge, board, or commission 
                        indicating violations of law; and
                            ``(iv) Federal or State felony 
                        indictments.''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2305a the 
following new item:

``2305b. Contractor requirement for satisfactory record of integrity 
                            and business ethics.''.
    (b) Other Contractors.--(1) Title III of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 251 et seq.) is amended 
by inserting after section 303L the following new section:

``SEC. 303M. CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENT FOR SATISFACTORY RECORD OF 
              INTEGRITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS.

    ``(a) In General.--No prospective contractor may be awarded a 
contract with an agency unless the contracting officer for the contract 
determines that such prospective contractor has a satisfactory record 
of integrity and business ethics, including a record of satisfactory 
compliance with the law (including tax, labor and employment, 
environmental, antitrust, and consumer protection laws).
    ``(b) Information To Be Considered.--In making a determination as 
to whether a prospective contractor has a satisfactory record of 
integrity and business ethics, a contracting officer--
            ``(1) shall consider all relevant credible information, but 
        shall give the greatest weight to any violations of law that 
        have been adjudicated during the 3-year period preceding the 
        offer by the prospective contractor;
            ``(2) shall consider any administrative agreements entered 
        into with the prospective contractor if the prospective 
        contractor has taken corrective action after disclosing a 
        violation of law, and may consider such a contractor to be a 
        responsible contractor if the contractor has corrected the 
        conditions that led to the misconduct;
            ``(3) shall consider failure to comply with the terms of an 
        administrative agreement to be a lack of integrity and business 
        ethics under this section;
            ``(4) may consider other relevant information, such as 
        civil or administrative complaints or similar actions filed by 
        or on behalf of a Federal agency, board, or commission, if such 
        action reflects an adjudicated determination by the agency; and
            ``(5) shall consider the following in descending order of 
        importance:
                    ``(A) Convictions of and civil judgments rendered 
                against the prospective contractor for--
                            ``(i) commission of fraud or a criminal 
                        offense in connection with obtaining, 
                        attempting to obtain, or performing a Federal, 
                        State, or local contract or subcontract;
                            ``(ii) violation of Federal or State 
                        antitrust law relating to the submission of 
                        offers; or
                            ``(iii) commission of embezzlement, theft, 
                        forgery, bribery, falsification, or destruction 
                        of records, making false statement, tax 
                        evasion, or receiving stolen property.
                    ``(B) Indictments for the offenses described in 
                subparagraph (A).
                    ``(C) With respect to tax, labor, employment, 
                environmental, antitrust, or consumer protection laws--
                            ``(i) Federal or State felony convictions;
                            ``(ii) adverse Federal court judgments in 
                        civil cases brought by the United States;
                            ``(iii) adverse decisions by a Federal 
                        administrative law judge, board, or commission 
                        indicating violations of law; and
                            ``(iv) Federal or State felony 
                        indictments.''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such Act is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 303L the following new 
item:

``303M. Contractor requirement for satisfactory record of integrity and 
                            business ethics.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to contracts for which solicitations are issued 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Output: Amends Federal defense contract law and the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to prohibit a contractor from being awarded a defense or Federal contract unless the Federal contracting officer determines that such contractor has a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics, including compliance with all applicable laws. Outlines information to be considered by a contracting officer in making such determination, with an emphasis on any violations that have been adjudicated during the prior three-year period, as well as certain convictions of and civil judgments rendered against such contractor.


Input: Consider Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Global Trade Requires Unmitigated 
Truth in Health (TRUTH) Act'' .

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The rise of global trade has created both new 
        commercial opportunities and new health risks.
            (2) Governments have the right and responsibility to 
        protect their countries from the threat of disease.
            (3) Trade is responsible for contributing to the rapid 
        spread of disease around the globe and increases the risk of a 
        pandemic outbreak.
            (4) Those who participate in world trade, therefore, have a 
        responsibility to promptly report and appropriately respond to 
        infectious diseases on a timely basis to minimize the potential 
        for global pandemics.
            (5) The World Health Organization has created the World 
        Health Organization International Health Regulations to 
        prevent, protect against, and control disease and provide a 
        public health response to the international spread of disease 
        in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public 
        health risks, and that avoid unnecessary interference with 
        international traffic and trade.
            (6) The failure of countries to be transparent and 
        responsive to the existence or spread of disease in a country 
        that is a member of the World Trade Organization threatens the 
        free flow of goods and services that is a primary objective of 
        the GATT 1994 and other agreements of the World Trade 
        Organization.
            (7) The experience with the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003 
        should be a clear warning that the system of public health 
        readiness can be easily compromised by delays in reporting the 
        earliest cases of an outbreak by a country reluctant to 
        publicize a problem with an economic downside, no matter the 
        public health consequences.
            (8) If a country fails to abide by regulations which are 
        designed to prevent, protect against, and control disease and 
        provide a public health response to the international spread of 
        disease without unnecessary interference with international 
        traffic and trade, it may be necessary to take actions against 
        that country which restrict or otherwise interfere with 
        international traffic or trade in the best interest of public 
        health.

SEC. 3. WTO PROPOSAL.

    (a) Action by United States Trade Representative.--The United 
States Trade Representative shall--
            (1) propose to the World Trade Organization that the rights 
        and obligations of the World Trade Organization should take 
        into account whether countries are undermining the trade system 
        by failing to abide by the rules of other international 
        organizations with regard to public health, specifically the 
        International Health Regulations of the World Health 
        Organization; and
            (2) include in the proposal options for its implementation, 
        such as--
                    (A) provisions that would give members of the World 
                Trade Organization the right to impose sanctions or 
                other punitive measures on members that have been found 
                to violate the International Health Regulations of the 
                World Health Organization; and
                    (B) membership criteria for current and potential 
                members of the World trade Organization that would 
                include the requirement to uphold the trade system by 
                abiding by rules of other international organizations 
                with regard to public health.
    (b) Report to Congress.--The United States Trade Representative 
shall report to the Congress, not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, and not later than the end of each 90-day 
period thereafter, on steps the Trade Representative has taken to carry 
out subsection (a), and the results of those steps.

SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT ON COUNTRY COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 
              REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, 
not later than December 1, 2006, and not later than December 1 of each 
year thereafter, a full and complete report regarding the status of the 
compliance with and observance of the International Health Regulations 
of the World Health Organization in each country that is a member of 
that Organization.
    (b) Contents.--Each report under subsection (a) shall include the 
following information:
            (1) The extent to which each country complies with and 
        enforces the requirements contained in the International Health 
        Regulations.
            (2) The extent to which each country uses effective 
        epidemiological principles to detect, reduce, or eliminate the 
        sources from which infection spreads, to improve sanitation in 
        and around ports and airports, to prevent the dissemination of 
        vectors, and, in general, to encourage epidemiological 
        activities on the national level so that there is little risk 
        of outside infection establishing itself in that country.
            (3) The steps that the Secretary has taken to alter United 
        States programs or policies with respect to any country because 
        of unsatisfactory compliance with the International Health 
        Regulations.
            (4) For each country in which the report indicates that the 
        country's health administration has failed to notify the World 
        Health Organization within 24 hours of its being informed that 
        the first case of a disease subject to the International Health 
        Regulations, that is neither an imported case nor a transferred 
        case, has occurred in its territory, or, within the subsequent 
        24 hours, has failed to notify the infected area, the extent to 
        which the United States has taken or will take action to 
        encourage such notifications.
            (5) The extent to which each country communicates frequent 
        and detailed information to the World Health Organization about 
        the presence of plague, cholera, yellow fever, avian influenza, 
        Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and any other disease 
        determined by the Secretary that is present in its country. The 
        report shall describe whether each country communicates to the 
        World Health Organization the number of cases and deaths at 
        least once each week, and the precautions taken to prevent the 
        spread of the disease, in particular the measures which are 
        being applied to prevent the spread of the disease to other 
        territories by vessels, aircraft, trains, road vehicles, other 
        means of transport, and containers leaving the infected area.
            (6) What steps the government of each country has taken to 
        ensure that ports and airports in its territory have at their 
        disposal an organization and equipment adequate for the 
        application of the measures provided for in the International 
        Health Regulations.
            (7) What steps the government of each country has taken to 
        make available, at as many of the ports and airports in a 
        territory as practicable, an organized medical and health 
        service with adequate staff, equipment, and premises, in 
        particular facilities for the prompt isolation and care of 
        infected persons, for disinfection, disinsecting, and 
        deratting, for bacteriological investigation, for the 
        collection and examination of rodents for plague infection, for 
        collection of water and food samples and their dispatch to a 
        laboratory for examination, and for other appropriate measures 
        provided for by the International Health Regulations.


Output: Global Trade Requires Unmitigated Truth in Health (TRUTH) Act - Requires the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to: (1) propose to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that its rights and obligations should take into account whether countries are undermining the trade system by failing to abide by the rules of other international organizations with regard to public health, specifically the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization; and (2) include in the proposal specified options for its implementation.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and specified congressional committees on the status of the compliance with and observance of such Regulations in each member country of the Organization.