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.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings that extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death, disproportionately affecting environmental justice communities, outdoor workers, elderly, and pregnant people, requires interagency committee within NOAA spanning 20+ agencies (Commerce, HHS, Interior, EPA, FEMA, Labor, Defense, etc.) to coordinate federal heat-health response with strategic plan and annual reports, and creates NIHHIS system within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, warnings, decision support tools, and centers of excellence for heat resilience. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, grants, and appropriations. The main policy areas are Science & Space, Environment, Healthcare, and Agriculture.
Who Benefits and How
NOAA could gain revenue opportunities, Environmental justice communities could face lower compliance burdens, and National Academies of Sciences could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
NOAA would take on compliance duties, Federal agencies on interagency committee would take on compliance duties, and Federal taxpayers could face higher costs.
Key Provisions
- Creates congressional findings that extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death, disproportionately affecting environmental justice communities, outdoor workers, elderly, and pregnant people.
- Requires interagency committee within NOAA spanning 20+ agencies (Commerce, HHS, Interior, EPA, FEMA, Labor, Defense, etc.) to coordinate federal heat-health response with strategic plan and annual reports.
- Creates NIHHIS system within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, warnings, decision support tools, and centers of excellence for heat resilience.
- Requires national Academies study on extreme heat policy gaps, data shortfalls, discontinued federal tools, and impact on workers, schools, prisons, and environmental justice communities.
- Creates community heat resilience grant program for cooling centers, cool roofs, urban forestry, building retrofits, power grid resilience, worker protections, and early warning systems.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill creates congressional findings that extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death, disproportionately affecting environmental justice communities, outdoor workers, elderly, and pregnant people, requires interagency committee within NOAA spanning 20+ agencies (Commerce, HHS, Interior, EPA, FEMA, Labor, Defense, etc.) to coordinate federal heat-health response with strategic plan and annual reports, and creates NIHHIS system within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, warnings, decision support tools, and centers of excellence for heat resilience.
Key Policy Areas
Science & Space, Environment, Healthcare, Agriculture
Primary Purpose
The bill creates congressional findings that extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death, disproportionately affecting environmental justice communities, outdoor workers, elderly, and pregnant people, requires interagency committee within NOAA spanning 20+ agencies (Commerce, HHS, Interior, EPA, FEMA, Labor, Defense, etc.) to coordinate federal heat-health response with strategic plan and annual reports, and creates NIHHIS system within NOAA to deliver heat data, forecasts, warnings, decision support tools, and centers of excellence for heat resilience.
Policy Domains
Heat Health Infrastructure
Identified Gains
- NOAA
- Environmental justice communities
- National Academies of Sciences
- NOAA weather and climate services
- Local governments and tribal nations
Identified Costs
- NOAA
- Federal agencies on interagency committee
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Heinrich, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Federal agencies on interagency committee, Local governments and tribal nations, NOAA
NOAA faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Local governments and tribal nations, NOAA weather and climate services
Negative-direction: Federal agencies on interagency committee
Communities vulnerable to extreme heat, Community heat resilience grantees, Environmental justice communities
Outdoor workers, Outdoor workers and agricultural workers
Climate science researchers, National Academies of Sciences
Public health and emergency management professionals
Incarcerated individuals in facilities lacking cooling
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "noaa"
- → National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- "nihhis_director"
- → Director of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System
- "national_academies"
- → National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- "interagency_committee"
- → NIHHIS Interagency Committee (spanning 20+ agencies)
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Community with significant representation of communities of color, low-income, or Tribal communities experiencing higher health or environmental effects
Health effects to humans from heat, during or outside of heat events, including vulnerability and exposure risks
Heat that substantially exceeds local climatological norms in duration, intensity, season length, or frequency
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