Healthy Schools Act of 2007

Healthy Schools Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to expand and intensify programs to reduce the incidence of staph infections in elementary and secondary schools.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct surveillance activities to collect data on such infections; and (2) develop and periodically update best practices guidelines for reducing the incidence of such infections. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools to improve awareness of, and to implement, such guidelines.

Requires the Secretary to reserve CDC funds to carry out this Act.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3964 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3964

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to address the incidence of 
         staph infections in elementary and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2007

  Mr. Cantor introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Health Service Act to address the incidence of 
         staph infections in elementary and secondary schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Healthy Schools Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. STAPH INFECTIONS IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 317S the following:

``SEC. 317T. STAPH INFECTIONS IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand and 
intensify programs to reduce the incidence of staph infections in 
elementary schools and secondary schools.
    ``(b) Surveillance Activities.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall conduct surveillance activities to collect data on 
staph infections in elementary schools and secondary schools.
    ``(c) Best Practices Guidelines.--
            ``(1) Development; publication; dissemination.--In carrying 
        out subsection (a), the Secretary shall--
                    ``(A) develop not later than 6 months after the 
                date of the enactment of the Healthy Schools Act of 
                2007, and periodically update thereafter, best 
                practices guidelines for reducing the incidence of 
                staph infections in elementary schools and secondary 
                schools; and
                    ``(B) publish and, as appropriate, disseminate such 
                guidelines.
            ``(2) Grants.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
        Secretary may make grants to elementary schools and secondary 
        schools to improve awareness of, and to implement, the 
        guidelines developed under paragraph (1).
    ``(d) Definition.--In this section:
            ``(1) The terms `elementary school' and `secondary school' 
        have the meanings given to those terms in section 9101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
            ``(2) The term `staph infection' means an infection with 
        Staphylococcus aureus.
    ``(e) Reservation.--Of the amounts appropriated to the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
reserve an appropriate amount to carry out this section.''.
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