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

Introduced: October 28, 2009 See on congress.gov
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 October 29, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Feb 23, 2010
 D
Himes, James A.
Connecticut · Oct 28, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3955: Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-3955/
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"H.R. 3955: Surveillance, Tracking, Observation, and Prevention of Obesity Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-3955/.
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