H.R. 2339

[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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