Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009

Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) make grants to 10 states for demonstration projects for the expansion of state registries on childhood immunization or health to include data on body mass index, collected and submitted to the state by health care providers; (2) require such registries to meet data standards and to be interoperable to ensure that registry data can be analyzed by the federal government and by other state governments; and (3) study and report on the effectiveness of such demonstration projects.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3955 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3955

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to 10 States 
  for demonstration projects for the expansion of State registries on 
  childhood immunization or health to include data on body mass index 
 (BMI), collected and submitted to the State by health care providers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2009

Mr. Carney (for himself, Mr. Nye, Mr. Himes, and Mr. Holden) 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 authorize grants to 10 States 
  for demonstration projects for the expansion of State registries on 
  childhood immunization or health to include data on body mass index 
 (BMI), collected and submitted to the State by health care providers.

    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 ``Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, 
and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR EXPANSION OF STATE REGISTRIES TO 
              INCLUDE DATA ON BODY MASS INDEX.

    Subsection (k) of section 317 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 247b) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
        (4) and (5), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
    ``(3)(A) The Secretary shall make grants to 10 States for 
demonstration projects for the expansion of State registries on 
childhood immunization or health to include data on body mass index 
(BMI), collected and submitted to the State by health care providers.
    ``(B) To ensure that data maintained by a State in a registry 
funded under this paragraph can be analyzed by the Federal Government 
and by other State governments, the Secretary shall require the 
registry to meet data standards and be interoperable.
    ``(C) The Secretary shall conduct a study of the demonstration 
projects funded under this paragraph and, not later than 3 years after 
the date of the enactment of this paragraph, submit to the Congress a 
report on the results of such study, including an analysis of the 
effectiveness of such projects.''.
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