National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1986 - Title I: Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research - Establishes a ten-year coordinated program, to be known as the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program, which will be implemented by the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Agriculture. Establishes an Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research to facilitate the implementation of such program. Authorizes the Secretaries to appoint an Administrator of Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research to coordinate such program.
Sets forth the functions of the Secretaries with respect to such program, including: (1) establishing matching grants programs for specified nutritional and dietary purposes; and (2) submitting an annual report to the President for transmittal to the Congress.
Requires the Secretaries to prepare and implement a comprehensive national nutrition monitoring and related research plan which shall: (1) assess and report on U.S. nutritional and dietary trends; (2) assess and report on low-income food and household expenditures; (3) sponsor and conduct research; (4) develop and update a national dietary and nutritional status data bank; (5) assist State and local agencies in developing procedures and networks for nutrition monitoring and surveillance; and (6) focus the activities of Federal agencies. Requires the plan to allocate the project functions and activities among the various Federal agencies and offices involved.
Provides that the comprehensive plan shall be carried out during the period ending with the close of the ninth fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the final comprehensive plan is submitted.
Requires the Secretaries to provide for and coordinate such scientific research and development as may be necessary to suppoort the coordinated program and comprehensive plan.
Authorizes appropriations.
Title II: National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council - Establishes an 11-member Advisory Council to: (1) provide scientific and technical advice on the development and implementation of all components of the coordinated program and the comprehensive plan; (2) evaluate such program and plan; and (3) submit an annual report to the Secretaries.
Title III: Dietary Guidance -Directs the Secretaries to publish and review dietary guidelines for the general population.
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From USDA.
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Discharged.
Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Agriculture. Report No: 99-481 (Part II).
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Agriculture. Report No: 99-481 (Part II).
Placed on Union Calendar No: 383.
Rule Granted Providing an Open Rule with 2 Hours of Debate.
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.484 Reported to House.
Rule Passed House.
Called up by House by Rule.
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Committee Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute Considered as an Original Bill for the Purpose of Amendment.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 305 - 85 (Record Vote No: 210).
Roll Call #210 (House)Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 305 - 85 (Record Vote No: 210).
Roll Call #210 (House)Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth without amendment. With written report No. 99-521.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth without amendment. With written report No. 99-521.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1074.