Halt Obesity in America Act
This bill expands eligibility for the High Obesity Program, which is an obesity-reduction grant program managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for land-grant universities in states with eligible counties. Currently, an eligible county is one where the adult obesity rate is over 40%; the bill reduces that rate to 35%.
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the 
requirement that a recipient of a grant under the High Obesity Program 
   be located in a county with an adult obesity rate of more than 40 
                    percent, 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 ``Halt Obesity in America Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPAND ELIGIBILITY OF THE HIGH OBESITY PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Service, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
shall revise the requirement that a recipient of a grant under the High 
Obesity Program be located in a county with an adult obesity rate of 
more than 40 percent to instead require such a recipient to be located 
in a county with an adult obesity rate of more than 35 percent.
    (b) High Obesity Program.--In this Act, the term ``High Obesity 
Program'' means the High Obesity Program carried out by the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention under sections 301(a) and 317(k)(2) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241(a), 247b(k)(2)).
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Halt Obesity in America Act
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the requirement that a recipient of a grant under the High Obesity Program be located in a county with an adult obesity rate of more than 40 percent, and for other purposes.
Halt Obesity in America Act
Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S.