Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1149
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Air conditioning
Air pollution control
Allergies
Animals
Apartment houses
Asthma
Child care workers
Child health
Cockroaches
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate philanthropy
Costs
Data banks
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indoor air pollution
Insect control
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Low-income housing
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Nonprofit organizations
Pest control
Pests
Preventive medicine
Public housing
Public service advertising
Rental housing
Research grants
Respiratory diseases
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Tax credits
Taxation
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects for specified asthma-related activities for low-income communities, including screening and referrals, information and education, and workshops for parents and other individuals who supervise children.
Authorizes the Secretary also to award contracts to provide for a national media campaign to inform the public and health care providers on asthma, allergies, and related respiratory problems, especially in children.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer licensed and engaged in the trade or business of providing pest control services or heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services, an income tax credit for the aggregate cost of providing such services without charge to: (1) public housing; or (2) any multifamily residential rental property at least 75 percent of whose occupants are reasonably expected to have incomes below 200 percent of the official poverty line. Requires the Secretary to disseminate information about such credit.
Directs the Secretary to provide for research into whether and to what extent there is a causal relationship between air pollutants and the occurrence of asthma, allergies, and related respiratory problems.
Requires the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, through the National Asthma Education Prevention Program Coordinating Committee, to: (1) identify all Federal programs that carry out asthma-related activities; and (2) develop and submit to Congress a Federal plan for responding to asthma.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2630)
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House