119-hr2339

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2339 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2339

To require the Office of Children's Health Protection to be maintained 
 within the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 25, 2025

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. 
 Tlaib, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Tokuda, 
Mrs. Hayes, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. 
 Carson, Ms. Dexter, Ms. Chu, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Sorensen, 
and Mr. Thanedar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

To require the Office of Children's Health Protection to be maintained 
 within the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Children's Health Protection Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. OFFICE OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall maintain, within the Agency, the Office of Children's 
Health Protection.

    (b) Director.--

    (1) In general.--The Office shall be headed by a Director.

    (2) Appointment.--The Director of the Office shall be 
 appointed by, and report to, the Administrator of the 
 Environmental Protection Agency. In making such appointment, 
 the Administrator shall take into consideration the 
 recommendations of the Children's Health Protection Advisory 
 Committee.

    (3) Co-chair of president's task force.--The Administrator 
 of the Environmental Protection Agency shall delegate to the 
 Director of the Office responsibility to serve as Co-Chair, on 
 behalf of the Administrator, of the President's Task Force on 
 Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children 
 established by Executive Order 13045.
            (c) Duties.--The Director of the Office shall--

    (1) identify and assess environmental health risks and 
 safety risks that may disproportionately affect infants, 
 children, and adolescents;

    (2) work to ensure that Federal policies, programs, 
 activities, and standards address disproportionate risks to 
 infants, children, and adolescents that result from 
 environmental health risks or safety risks, including 
 consideration of the unique environmental justice concerns 
 affecting infants, children, and adolescents;

    (3) coordinate Federal research and programs, including 
 grant programs, to advance the activities described in 
 paragraphs

    (1) and

    (2) ;

    (4) advise other offices of the Environmental Protection 
 Agency and other Federal agencies on all matters related to and 
 concerning environmental health risks to infants, children, and 
 adolescents;

    (5) carry out other duties as the Administrator determines 
 appropriate, including any responsibilities of the 
 Administrator under Executive Order 13045; and

    (6) carry out national activities to--
        (A) reduce negative environmental impacts on 
 infants, children, and adolescents through involvement 
 in rulemaking, policy, enforcement actions, research, 
 and applications of science that focuses on prenatal 
 and childhood vulnerabilities;
        (B) help protect infants, children, and adolescents 
 through promoting and issuing guidance for safe 
 chemicals management;
            (C) coordinate community-based programs to 
 eliminate threats to infants', children's, and 
 adolescents' health;
            (D) increase the environmental health literacy of 
 health care providers through support of pediatric 
 environmental health specialty units;
        (E) evaluate and communicate trends in 
 environmental contaminants that may contribute to 
 childhood disease;
        (F) develop and publish resources for local 
 educational agencies to establish, maintain, or enhance 
 a school environmental health program; and
        (G) otherwise protect infants, children, and 
 adolescents from environmental health risks or safety 
 risks.
            (d) Transition.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall make such changes to the Office of Children's Health 
Protection of the Environmental Protection Agency, as in existence on 
the day before the date of enactment of this Act, as may be necessary 
for such Office to become the Office required by subsection

    (a) .

    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section, 
there is authorized to be appropriated $7,842,000 for fiscal year 2026 
and each subsequent fiscal year.

SEC. 3. CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall maintain an advisory committee, to be known as 
the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, to--

    (1) provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator 
 and other officials of the Environmental Protection Agency 
 regarding the programs and activities of the Office;

    (2) advise the Administrator and other officials of the 
 Environmental Protection Agency on regulations, research, and 
 communications related to infant's, children's and adolescent's 
 health; and

    (3) support the Environmental Protection Agency, including 
 the Office, in implementing Executive Order 13045 and other 
 issues related to infants', children's, and adolescents' health 
 protection as deemed appropriate by the Administrator.

    (b) Applicability of FACA.--The Children's Health Protection 
Advisory Committee shall be subject to chapter 10 of title 5, United 
States Code, except that the Children's Health Protection Advisory 
Committee shall be a permanent advisory committee and shall not 
terminate under 

section 1013 of such title.
            (c) Transition.--The President, acting through the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, shall make such changes to the 
Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee established pursuant to 
Executive Order 13045 as may be necessary for such Advisory Committee 
to become the advisory committee required by this section.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Children's health protection advisory committee.--The 
 term ``Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee'' means 
 the advisory committee maintained pursuant to 

section 3.

    (2) Executive order 13045.--The term ``Executive Order 
 13045'' means Executive Order 10345 (relating to protection of 
 children from environmental health risks and safety risks) 
 published in the Federal Register on April 23, 1997 (62 Fed. 
 Reg. 19885).

    (3) Local educational agency.--The term ``local educational 
 agency'' has the meaning given to such term in 

section 8101 of 
 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
 7801).

    (4) Office.--The term ``Office'' means the Office of 
 Children's Health Protection maintained pursuant to 

section 2.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

 To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$13,200,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
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