Tài liệu To improve the health of women through the establishment of Offices of Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services pdf

F ATTAH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the mittee on Energy and Commerce Com-A BILL To improve the health of women through the establishment of Offices of Women’

H OLLEN , Mrs C APPS , Ms D E L AURO , Ms N ORTON , Mr C ROWLEY , Mrs

L OWEY , Mr M ARSHALL , Ms S LAUGHTER , Ms S UTTON , and Mr

F ATTAH ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the mittee on Energy and Commerce

Com-A BILL

To improve the health of women through the establishment

of Offices of Women’s Health within the Department

of Health and Human Services

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

SEC 2 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON

‘‘(3) monitor the Department of Health and 1

Human Services’ offices, agencies, and regional 2

tivities regarding women’s health and stimulate 3

ac-tivities and facilitate coordination of such 4

depart-mental and agency offices on women’s health;

facilitating the development of materials for 1

such technical assistance);

‘‘(7) through publications and any other means 6

appropriate, provide for the exchange of information 7

between the Office and recipients of grants, 8

con-tracts, and agreements under subsection (c), and 9

be-tween the Office and health professionals and the 10

‘‘(d) REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after the date 1

of enactment of this section, and every second year 2

there-after, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the 3

appro-priate committees of Congress a report describing the 4

ac-tivities carried out under this section during the period 5

for which the report is being prepared

or-ders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, 1

agree-ments, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, 2

registra-tions, privileges, and other administrative actions that— 3

(1) have been issued, made, granted, or allowed 4

to become effective by the President, any Federal 5

agency or official thereof, or by a court of competent 6

jurisdiction, in the performance of functions 7

trans-ferred under this subsection; and 8

(2) are in effect at the time this section takes 9

effect, or were final before the date of enactment of 10

this section and are to become effective on or after 11

such date;

12shall continue in effect according to their terms until 13

modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in 14

accordance with law by the President, the Secretary, or 15

other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, 16

‘‘SEC 310A CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND

‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, 1

non-governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 2

women’s health professionals, and other individuals 3

and groups, as appropriate, on the policy of the 4

Cen-ters with regard to women; and 5

‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of 6

Health and Human Services Coordinating 7

Com-mittee on Women’s Health (established under 8

‘‘(A) identifying the need for programs and 1

activities that focus on women’s health;

indi-cates that such factors or types may be different for 1

SEC 5 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH

(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 1

para-graph (5); and 2

(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), the 3

‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The official designated under 1

sub-section (a) shall—

‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of 1

Health and Human Services Coordinating 2

Com-mittee on Women’s Health (established under 3

of the funds needed to adequately support the 1

‘‘(C) making recommendations to the 7

Di-rector of the Agency concerning findings made 8

under subparagraphs (A) and (B)

‘‘(f) WOMEN’S HEALTH.—For the purpose of 1

car-rying out section 937 regarding women’s health, there are 2

authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 3

nec-essary for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.’’ 4

SEC 7 HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES

Administra-tion that relate to health care provider training, 1

health service delivery, research, and demonstration 2

projects, for issues of particular concern to women; 3

‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 4

should be conducted or supported by the bureaus of 5

‘‘(3) CHAIRPERSON.—The Director of the 1

Of-fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the 2

‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term 1

‘Adminis-trator’ means the Administrator of the Health 2

Re-sources and Services Administration

the Office of Women’s Health (referred to in this section 1

as the ‘Office’) The Office shall be headed by a director 2

who shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Food and 3

ex-pertise in women’s issues, consumer organizations, 1

and women’s health professionals on Administration 2

policy with regard to women;

‘‘(A) identifying whether there is a need 1

for further studies and, if so, developing 2

strate-gies to foster such studies;

de-scribing the activities carried out under this section during 1

the period for which the report is being prepared

Administra-tion) that is in existence on the date of enactment of this 1

Act shall not be terminated, reorganized, or have any of 2

its powers or duties transferred unless such termination, 3

reorganization, or transfer is approved by Congress 4

through the adoption of a concurrent resolution of 5

ap-proval

6

Æ