118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 4953 — Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2023

“To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National Integrated Heat Health Information System within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat preparedness, planning, and response, requiring a study, and establishing financial assistance programs to address heat effects, and for other purposes.”

Health

Introduced Jul 27, 2023

Last action Jul 28, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Jul 27, 2023

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Referred

Jul 28, 2023

E&C · Science

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Committee

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Senate

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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill establishes several programs to address the adverse health effects of extreme heat. For example, the bill establishes an interagency committee in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy to address the health risks of extreme heat through coordinated research, strategic partnerships, and workforce development. It also requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to (1) establish a heat health information system to improve forecasts of extreme heat, and (2) contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study policy, data, and research gaps relating to extreme heat. NOAA may also, in coordination with the int...

Provisions · 8 sectionsIntroduced in House

Timeline · 4 actions

Jul 28, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Jul 27, 2023

Introduced in House

Jul 27, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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.

Jul 27, 2023