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[H.R. 2468 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2468

                     One Hundred Sixteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twenty


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the preference given, 
in awarding certain allergies and asthma-related grants, to States that 
 require certain public schools to have allergies and asthma management 
                    programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``School-Based Allergies and Asthma 
Management Program Act''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL PREFERENCE TO CERTAIN STATES THAT REQUIRE CERTAIN 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO HAVE ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS.
    Section 399L(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
280g(d)) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1)(F)--
            (A) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) as 
        subclauses (I), (II), and (III), respectively, and moving each 
        of such subclauses (as so redesignated) 2 ems to the right;
            (B) by striking ``epinephrine.--In determining'' and 
        inserting ``epinephrine or school comprehensive allergies and 
        asthma management program.--
                ``(i) In general.--In determining'';
            (C) by striking ``in the State--'' and inserting ``in the 
        State satisfy the criteria described in clause (ii) or clause 
        (iii).
                ``(ii) Criteria for school personnel administration of 
            epinephrine.--For purposes of clause (i), the criteria 
            described in this clause, with respect to each public 
            elementary school and secondary school in the State, are 
            that each such school--''; and
            (D) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                ``(iii) Criteria for school comprehensive allergies and 
            asthma management program.--For purposes of clause (i), the 
            criteria described in this clause, with respect to each 
            public elementary school and secondary school in the State, 
            are that each such school--

                    ``(I) has in place a plan for having on the 
                premises of the school during all operating hours of 
                the school a school nurse or one or more other 
                individuals who are designated by the principal (or 
                other appropriate administrative staff) of the school 
                to direct and apply the program described in subclause 
                (II) on a voluntary basis outside their scope of 
                employment; and
                    ``(II) has in place, under the direction of a 
                school nurse or other individual designated under 
                subclause (I), a comprehensive school-based allergies 
                and asthma management program that includes--

                        ``(aa) a method to identify all students of 
                    such school with a diagnosis of allergies and 
                    asthma;
                        ``(bb) an individual student allergies and 
                    asthma action plan for each student of such school 
                    with a diagnosis of allergies and asthma;
                        ``(cc) allergies and asthma education for 
                    school staff who are directly responsible for 
                    students who have been identified as having 
                    allergies or asthma, such as education regarding 
                    basics, management, trigger management, and 
                    comprehensive emergency responses with respect to 
                    allergies and asthma;
                        ``(dd) efforts to reduce the presence of 
                    environmental triggers of allergies and asthma; and
                        ``(ee) a system to support students with a 
                    diagnosis of allergies or asthma through 
                    coordination with family members of such students, 
                    primary care providers of such students, primary 
                    asthma or allergy care providers of such students, 
                    and others as necessary.''; and
        (2) in paragraph (3)(E)--
            (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting ``, 
        such as the school nurse'' after ``individual''; and
            (B) in clause (i), by inserting ``school nurse or'' before 
        ``principal''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.