Congress 108 - HR 2018 - Asthma Act

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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 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

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Asthma Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Directs the Program 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 to collaborate with the States to expand specified asthma-related activities. Authorizes the Secretary 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 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.

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Jun 20, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
Jun 20, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jun 20, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Jun 20, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Jun 2, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 7, 2003

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.
May 7, 2003

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