[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3826. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division B, insert the 
     following:


                  report on asthma control activities

       Sec. __. Not later than 120 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall submit to Congress a report on asthma control 
     activities conducted by the Department of Health and Human 
     Services that includes information on--
       (1) how States may employ Medicaid funding to support 
     asthma control activities in various settings, including 
     home-based and residential settings;
       (2) public health and population level approaches to 
     addressing environmental exposures;
       (3) how the health care and housing sectors can work 
     together on interventions to improve asthma care and reduce 
     asthma morbidity; and
       (4) what the Department of Health and Human Services is 
     doing to expand access to State asthma housing and home-based 
     related initiatives, including what research related to such 
     initiatives the Department is funding, and what resources to 
     support such initiatives are made available through all 
     programs of the Department, including programs administered 
     by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 
     National Institutes of Health.
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