Family Asthma Act
Latest action · Nov 4, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 27, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct pilot projects to prevent and control asthma symptoms and to reduce asthma attacks in families. Requires the Secretary to give: (1) priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population; and (2) consideration to an adequate rural-urban distribution, so as to gain better information about asthma at the national level.
Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a National Asthma Action Plan and to fund a report to Congress by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collaborate with state and local health departments to conduct activities to inform and educate the public regarding asthma; (2) conduct asthma surveillance activities to collect data on the prevalence and severity of asthma, the effectiveness of public heath asthma intervention, and the quality of asthma management; and (3) compile and annually publish asthma data.
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish Dr. Irving J. Selikoff individual and institutional training grants for education and training of health care providers on the role of environmental factors in the development and prevention of asthma and recurrent asthma attacks.
Cosponsors 15
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 27, 2005 to Jun 20, 2006, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MI | John J.H. "Joe" Schwarz | Original | Oct 27, 2005 |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Feb 1, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | Feb 1, 2006 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Feb 1, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Feb 15, 2006 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Feb 15, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Feb 28, 2006 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Mar 1, 2006 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | Mar 28, 2006 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Apr 5, 2006 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Apr 6, 2006 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Apr 26, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | May 2, 2006 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | May 10, 2006 | |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Jun 20, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 4, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Oct 27, 2005Introduced in House
- Oct 27, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1489 | Family Asthma Act | Related bill | Jul 26, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Allergies
- Asthma
- Child health
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diesel motor
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health education
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Medical education
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Mortality
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Ozone
- Preventive medicine
- Public-private partnerships
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smog
- Telemedicine
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 27, 2005Introduced in House
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