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111th Congress
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Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009
Introduced: October 28, 2009
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 29, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct 28, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Oct 28, 2009
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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