3.0.0 2175 2023-01-11T20:20:53Z 2023-01-11T20:20:53Z Senate S S 2007-10-17 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-10-17T15:32:31Z Family Asthma Act 110 3904 HR 2007-10-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2007-10-17 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-10-17 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12991-12992) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R N 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 Protection Environmental health Families Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Federal aid to research Government Operations and Politics Government publicity 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 Health 00 2007-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2007-12-17T15:07:12Z 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 and improve self-management for individuals and 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.

]]> Family Asthma Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with regard to research on asthma, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Family Asthma Act Short Titles as Introduced Family Asthma Act Introduced in Senate 2007-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2175is/xml/BILLS-110s2175is.xml 2007-10-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.