PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB2757
Another underhanded effort to fund anti-gun efforts through biased government connected entities such as the CDC.
Legislation Overview
Title: Public Health Violence Prevention Act
Subject: Health: Advisory bodies: Aging: Crime prevention: Criminal justice information and records: Department of Health and Human Services: Domestic violence and child abuse: Education programs funding: Elementary and secondary education: Emergency medical services and trauma care: Executive agency funding and structure: Firearms and explosives: Health facilities and institutions: Health information and medical records: Health programs administration and funding: Law enforcement administration and funding: Medical education: Medical research: Mental health: Research administration and funding: Sex offenses: Violent crime
Description: Public Health Violence Prevention Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools of public health, criminal justice agencies, and public school districts, with preference given to projects serving areas with the highest rates of violence or the highest increases in violence; and (2) the Private Health Care Sector Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to health care providers, community-based organizations, and academic medical centers. The bill establishes the National Health Violence Prevention Program with the following offices and programs: the Office of Applied Violence Prevention Research, the National Advisory Board on Violence Prevention, the Violence Prevention Training Program, the Office of Data Collection and Evaluation, and the Office of Violence Prevention Education and Outreach. The Department of Health and Human Services must rename the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health as the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environmental Health.
Session: 115th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Last Action Date: June 2, 2017
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2757/all-info
Sponsors
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2 sponsors: Mike Quigley (D); Alcee Hastings (D)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jun 2 2017 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | May 26 2017 | Introduced in House |
| House | May 26 2017 | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. |
Texts
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Jun 14 2017 | federal bill text | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Committee
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Health
Votes
There have not been any votes on this bill
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