Asthma Act

Bill: 109-hr-2098
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Asthma
Authorization
Child health
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Health education
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health surveys
Hospital care
Hospitals
Managed care
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Nurses
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Students
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Asthma Act - Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Directs the Program's coordinating committee to report concerning the scope of, and federal programs concerned with, asthma problems in the United States.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to collaborate with states to expand specified asthma-related activities. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to make grants to nonprofit private entities to carry out related outreach activities. Gives grant priorities to communities disproportionately affected by asthma or underserved by health programs and in which a significant number of low-income individuals reside. 
Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to make matching grants to states to carry out activities to assist children with respect to asthma. 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies in communities with significant numbers of low-income or underserved individuals for elementary and secondary school asthma-related activities. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) hospitals and managed care plans should undertake certain efforts to increase asthma-related education and training; and (2) federal, state, and local activities should promote Public Health Service asthma diagnosis and management guidelines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House