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110
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION

H. R. 1072
To improve the health of women through the establishment of Offices of
Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
F
EBRUARY
15, 2007
Mrs. M
ALONEY
of New York (for herself, Ms. P
RYCE
of Ohio, Mr. V
AN

H
OLLEN
, Mrs. C
APPS
, Ms. D
E
L
AURO

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SEC. 2. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON WOM-1
EN’S HEALTH. 2
(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—Part A of title II of the Pub-3
lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 202 et seq.) is amended 4
by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘SEC. 229. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE ON 6
WOMEN’S HEALTH. 7
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF
O
FFICE
.—There is estab-8
lished within the Office of the Secretary, an Office on 9
Women’s Health (referred to in this section as the ‘Of-10
fice’). The Office shall be headed by a Deputy Assistant 11
Secretary for Women’s Health who may report to the Sec-12
retary. 13
‘‘(b) D
UTIES
.—The Secretary, acting through the Of-14
fice, with respect to the health concerns of women, shall— 15
‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals 16
and objectives within the Department of Health and 17
Human Services and, as relevant and appropriate, 18
coordinate with other appropriate offices on activi-19
ties within the Department that relate to disease 20
prevention, health promotion, service delivery, re-21

problems relating to the matters described in 22
this paragraph; and 23
‘‘(D) provide technical assistance with re-24
spect to the exchange of information (including 25
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facilitating the development of materials for 1
such technical assistance); 2
‘‘(6) coordinate efforts to promote women’s 3
health programs and policies with the private sector; 4
and 5
‘‘(7) through publications and any other means 6
appropriate, provide for the exchange of information 7
between the Office and recipients of grants, con-8
tracts, and agreements under subsection (c), and be-9
tween the Office and health professionals and the 10
general public. 11
‘‘(c) G
RANTS AND
C
ONTRACTS
R
EGARDING
D
U
-12
TIES
.— 13

A
PPROPRIATIONS
.—For the 7
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 8
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for 9
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 10
‘‘(f) L
IMITATION ON
T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 11
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-12
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-13
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 14
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-15
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 16
resolution of approval.’’. 17
(b) T
RANSFER OF
F
UNCTIONS
.—There are trans-18
ferred to the Office on Women’s Health (established under 19
section 229 of the Public Health Service Act, as added 20
by this section), all functions exercised by the Office on 21
Women’s Health of the Public Health Service prior to the 22
date of enactment of this section, including all personnel 23
and compensation authority, all delegation and assign-24

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‘‘SEC. 310A. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN-1
TION OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH. 2
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—There is established within 3
the Office of the Director of the Centers for Disease Con-4
trol and Prevention, an office to be known as the Office 5
of Women’s Health (referred to in this section as the ‘Of-6
fice’). The Office shall be headed by a director who shall 7
be appointed by the Director of such Centers. 8
‘‘(b) P
URPOSE
.—The Director of the Office shall— 9
‘‘(1) report to the Director of the Centers for 10
Disease Control and Prevention on the current level 11
of the Centers’ activity regarding women’s health 12
conditions across, where appropriate, age, biological, 13
and sociocultural contexts, in all aspects of the Cen-14
ters’ work, including prevention programs, public 15
and professional education, services, and treatment; 16
‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 17
and objectives within the Centers for women’s health 18
and, as relevant and appropriate, coordinate with 19
other appropriate offices on activities within the 20
Centers that relate to prevention, research, edu-21
cation and training, service delivery, and policy de-22
velopment, for issues of particular concern to 23
women; 24
‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 25

tional centers and other appropriate officials of the 18
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 19
‘‘(3) C
HAIRPERSON
.—The Director of the Of-20
fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the Coordi-21
nating Committee. 22
‘‘(4) D
UTIES
.—With respect to women’s health, 23
the Coordinating Committee shall assist the Director 24
of the Office in— 25
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‘‘(A) identifying the need for programs and 1
activities that focus on women’s health; 2
‘‘(B) identifying needs regarding the co-3
ordination of activities, including intramural 4
and extramural multidisciplinary activities; and 5
‘‘(C) making recommendations to the Di-6
rector of the Centers for Disease Control and 7
Prevention concerning findings made under 8
subparagraphs (A) and (B). 9
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 10
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-11
after, the Director of the Office shall prepare and submit 12

T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 7
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-8
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-9
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 10
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-11
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 12
resolution of approval.’’. 13
SEC. 4. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH. 14
Section 486(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 15
U.S.C. 287d(a)) is amended by inserting ‘‘and who shall 16
report directly to the Director’’ before the period at the 17
end thereof . 18
SEC. 5. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERV-19
ICES ADMINISTRATION. 20
Section 501(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42 21
U.S.C. 290aa(f)) is amended— 22
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘who shall 23
report directly to the Administrator’’ before the pe-24
riod; 25
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-1
graph (5); and 2
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), the fol-3

URPOSE
.—The official designated under sub-1
section (a) shall— 2
‘‘(1) report to the Director on the current 3
Agency level of activity regarding women’s health, 4
across, where appropriate, age, biological, and 5
sociocultural contexts, in all aspects of Agency work, 6
including the development of evidence reports and 7
clinical practice protocols and the conduct of re-8
search into patient outcomes, delivery of health care 9
services, quality of care, and access to health care; 10
‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 11
and objectives within the Agency for research impor-12
tant to women’s health and, as relevant and appro-13
priate, coordinate with other appropriate offices on 14
activities within the Agency that relate to health 15
services and medical effectiveness research, for 16
issues of particular concern to women; 17
‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 18
should be conducted or supported by the Agency; 19
‘‘(4) consult with health professionals, non-20
governmental organizations, consumer organizations, 21
women’s health professionals, and other individuals 22
and groups, as appropriate, on Agency policy with 23
regard to women; and 24
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‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of 1

women’s health, the Coordinating Committee shall 20
assist the official designated under subsection (a) 21
in— 22
‘‘(A) identifying the need for such re-23
search, and making an estimate each fiscal year 24
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of the funds needed to adequately support the 1
research; 2
‘‘(B) identifying needs regarding the co-3
ordination of research activities, including in-4
tramural and extramural multidisciplinary ac-5
tivities; and 6
‘‘(C) making recommendations to the Di-7
rector of the Agency concerning findings made 8
under subparagraphs (A) and (B). 9
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 10
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-11
after, the official designated under subsection (a) shall 12
prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Con-13
gress a report describing the activities carried out under 14
this section during the period for which the report is being 15
prepared. 16
‘‘(e) L
IMITATION ON
T

‘‘SEC. 713. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH. 9
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—The Secretary shall estab-10
lish within the Office of the Administrator of the Health 11
Resources and Services Administration, an office to be 12
known as the Office of Women’s Health. The Office shall 13
be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Ad-14
ministrator. 15
‘‘(b) P
URPOSE
.—The Director of the Office shall— 16
‘‘(1) report to the Administrator on the current 17
Administration level of activity regarding women’s 18
health across, where appropriate, age, biological, and 19
sociocultural contexts; 20
‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 21
and objectives within the Health Resources and 22
Services Administration for women’s health and, as 23
relevant and appropriate, coordinate with other ap-24
propriate offices on activities within the Administra-25
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tion that relate to health care provider training, 1
health service delivery, research, and demonstration 2
projects, for issues of particular concern to women; 3
‘‘(3) identify projects in women’s health that 4
should be conducted or supported by the bureaus of 5

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‘‘(3) C
HAIRPERSON
.—The Director of the Of-1
fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the Coordi-2
nating Committee. 3
‘‘(4) D
UTIES
.—With respect to women’s health, 4
the Coordinating Committee shall assist the Director 5
of the Office in— 6
‘‘(A) identifying the need for programs and 7
activities that focus on women’s health; 8
‘‘(B) identifying needs regarding the co-9
ordination of activities, including intramural 10
and extramural multidisciplinary activities; and 11
‘‘(C) making recommendations to the Ad-12
ministrator concerning findings made under 13
subparagraphs (A) and (B). 14
‘‘(d) R
EPORTS
.—Not later than 1 year after the date 15
of enactment of this section, and every second year there-16
after, the Director of the Office shall prepare and submit 17
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report de-18
scribing the activities carried out under this section during 19
the period for which the report is being prepared. 20
‘‘(e) D
EFINITIONS
.—For purposes of this section: 21

ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 11
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-12
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-13
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 14
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-15
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 16
resolution of approval.’’. 17
SEC. 8. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF 18
WOMEN’S HEALTH. 19
Chapter IX of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 20
Act (21 U.S.C. 391 et seq.) is amended by adding at the 21
end the following: 22
‘‘SEC. 910. OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH. 23
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT
.—There is established within 24
the Office of the Commissioner, an office to be known as 25
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the Office of Women’s Health (referred to in this section 1
as the ‘Office’). The Office shall be headed by a director 2
who shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Food and 3
Drugs. 4
‘‘(b) P
URPOSE

accordance with needs that are identified; and 6
‘‘(6) serve as a member of the Department of 7
Health and Human Services Coordinating Com-8
mittee on Women’s Health (established under sec-9
tion 229(b)(4) of the Public Health Service Act). 10
‘‘(c) C
OORDINATING
C
OMMITTEE
.— 11
‘‘(1) E
STABLISHMENT
.—In carrying out sub-12
section (b), the Director of the Office shall establish 13
a committee to be known as the Coordinating Com-14
mittee on Women’s Health (referred to in this sub-15
section as the ‘Coordinating Committee’). 16
‘‘(2) C
OMPOSITION
.—The Coordinating Com-17
mittee shall be composed of the directors of the cen-18
ters of the Administration. 19
‘‘(3) C
HAIRPERSON
.—The Director of the Of-20
fice shall serve as the Chairperson of the Coordi-21
nating Committee. 22
‘‘(4) D
UTIES
.—With respect to women’s health, 23

after, the Director of the Office shall prepare and submit 23
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report de-24
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scribing the activities carried out under this section during 1
the period for which the report is being prepared. 2
‘‘(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF
A
PPROPRIATIONS
.—For the 3
purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 4
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for 5
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 6
‘‘(f) L
IMITATION ON
T
ERMINATION OF
O
FFICE
.— 7
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office es-8
tablished under this section may not be terminated, reor-9
ganized, or have any of its powers or duties transferred 10
unless such termination, reorganization, or transfer is ap-11
proved by Congress through the adoption of a concurrent 12
resolution of approval.’’. 13
SEC. 9. NO NEW REGULATORY AUTHORITY. 14