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H.R.5209: Healthy Communities through Helping to Offer Incentives and Choices to Everyone in Society Act of 2010
About This Bill
- This bill was introduced in the 111th Congress
- This bill is primarily about health
- Introduced May 5, 2010
- Latest Major Action June 18, 2010
- See the one similar bills introduced in other congresses.
Bill Sponsor
Bill Cosponsors
5 (3 Democrats, 1 Independent, 1 Republican)
Bill Summary
Healthy Communities through Helping to Offer Incentives and Choices to Everyone in Society Act of 2010 - Revises federal health law to address obesity, including through: (1) routine collection of data needed to calculate body mass index (BMI); (2) expansion of coverage for obesity under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP); (3) programs to promote healthy eating behaviors and physical...
(Source: Library of Congress)
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Bill Actions
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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.
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Referred to House Energy and Commerce
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Referred to House Education and Labor
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Referred to House Ways and Means
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Referred to House Agriculture
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Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
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Referred to House Natural Resources
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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| May 5, 2010 |
Introduced in the House by Ron Kind (D-Wis.) |