significant number of low-income or underserved in-
dividuals (as defined by the Secretary). 
(b) DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS.—Programs under 
subsection (a) shall include grants under which local edu-
cation agencies and State public health officials collabo-
rate to develop programs to improve the management of 
asthma in school settings. 
(c) CERTAIN GUIDELINES.—Programs under sub-
section (a) shall be carried out in accordance with applica-
ble guidelines or other recommendations of the National 
Institutes of Health (including the National Heart, Lung, 
and Blood Institute) and the Environmental Protection 
Agency. 
(d) CERTAIN ACTIVITIES.—Activities that may be 
carried out in programs under subsection (a) include the 
following: 
(1) Identifying and working directly with local 
hospitals, community clinics, advocacy organizations, 
parent-teacher associations, and asthma coalitions. 
(2) Identifying asthmatic children and training 
them and their families in asthma self-management. 
(3) Purchasing asthma equipment. 
(4) Hiring school nurses. 
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(5) Training teachers, nurses, coaches, and 
other school personnel in asthma-symptom recogni-
tion and emergency responses. 
(6) Simplifying procedures to improve students’ 
safe access to their asthma medications. 
(7) Such other asthma-related activities as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
terms ‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, 
and ‘‘secondary school’’ have the meanings given such 
terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(f) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out this 
section, there is authorized to be appropriated $4,100,000 
for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014. 
SEC. 8. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING HOSPITALS AND 
MANAGED CARE PLANS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) hospitals should be encouraged to offer 
asthma-related education and training to asthma pa-
tients and their families upon discharge from the 
hospital of such patients; 
(2) hospitals should, with respect to information 
on asthma, establish telephone services for patients 
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and communicate with providers of primary health 
services; and 
(3) managed care organizations should— 
(A) be encouraged to disseminate to health 
care providers asthma clinical practice guide-
lines developed or endorsed by the Public 
Health Service; 
(B) collect and maintain asthma data; and 
(C) offer asthma-related education and 
training to asthma patients and their families. 
SEC. 9. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING IMPLEMENTA-
TION OF ACT. 
It is the sense of the Congress that all Federal, State, 
and local asthma-related activities should— 
(1) promote the guidelines and other rec-
ommendations of the Public Health Service on asth-
ma diagnosis and management; and 
(2) be designed in consultation with national 
and local organizations representing the medical, 
educational, and environmental communities, as well 
as advocates that represent those affected by asth-
ma. 
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