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HR 811 108th Congress House

SMARTS Health Act

Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make demonstration grants to promote the well-being and educational achievement of children through school-based health programs.

Introduced: March 6, 2003 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Passed House
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To President
Became law
Mar 10, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Feb 26, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2003
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Feb 13, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 10, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Student Medical Access Raising Test Scores Health Act - SMARTS Health Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make demonstration grants to expand school-based health programs.

Directs the Secretary to coordinate such grants program with other specified health programs.

Limits the making of such grants to the following eligible entities, for expansion of the following school-based health programs: (1) the University of Maryland, for its program in the Baltimore, Maryland, vicinity; (2) the local educational agency for its program in an independent school district in the Dallas, Texas, vicinity; (3) the University of New Mexico for its program in New Mexico; (4) the University of California, Los Angeles, for its program in the Los Angeles, California, vicinity; (5) the Child Study Center Outpatient Clinic, Yale University, for its program in the New Haven, Connecticut, vicinity; and (6) the University of Illinois at Chicago, for its program in the Chicago, Illinois, vicinity.

Directs the Secretary, in making such a grant, to establish goals for the program in terms of health outcomes for the children served.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 5 Republican 1 Independent 1
D
Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Apr 3, 2003
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Apr 1, 2003
 I
Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Mar 19, 2003
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 6, 2003
LINDER, JOHN
· Feb 25, 2003
 D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Feb 13, 2003
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Feb 13, 2003
 R
Sessions, Pete
Texas · Feb 13, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 811: SMARTS Health Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-811/
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