CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Bills and resolutions

American Diabetes Month: support goals and ideals (see S. Res. 282), S7272 [8OC] (see H. Res. 523), H8152 [5NO]

Bureau of Prisons: provide for an effective HIV/AIDS program in Federal prisons (see H.R. 768), H853 [5FE]

Children and youth: promote youth athletic safety (see S. 436), S900 [10FE] (see H.R. 829), H915 [10FE]

Dept. of HHS: condition receipt by States of preventive health services grants on the establishment of a State requirement for students in public elementary and secondary schools to be vaccinated (see H.R. 2232), H2792 [1MY]

——— coordinate Federal research efforts for, and improve public education and awareness of, congenital heart disease (see S. 2248), S7814 [5NO] (see H.R. 3952), H8150 [5NO]

——— establish a National Diabetes Clinical Care Commission (see S. 586), S1161 [26FE] (see H.R. 1192), H1524 [2MR]

——— establish and implement mild traumatic brain injury (concussion) management guidelines for school-aged children (see S. 307), S653 [29JA] (see H.R. 582), H660 [28JA]

——— expand and intensify programs on translational research and related activities relative to cavernous angioma (see S. 1391), S3183 [20MY] (see H.R. 2480), H3506 [20MY]

——— prevent and treat diabetes, promote and improve care of individuals with diabetes, and reduce health disparities, relative to diabetes, within racial and ethnic minority groups (see H.R. 2651), H3913 [4JN]

——— provide cardiomyopathy education, awareness, and risk assessment materials and resources and disseminate such materials by State educational agencies to identify more at-risk families (see H.R. 4015), H8240 [16NO]

——— provide for enhanced Federal efforts on prevention, education, treatment, and research relative to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases (see S. 1503), S3775 [4JN]

——— provide for research, surveillance, treatment, prevention, awareness, development of rules of play, standards, and dissemination of information relative to sports-related and other concussions (see H.R. 1271), H1610 [4MR]

——— provide for research relative to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases (see H.R. 789), H854 [5FE]

——— provide grants to health agencies and community and faith-based organizations for HIV/AIDS education, outreach, research and testing activities in minority communities (see H.R. 3396), H5767 [29JY]

——— reduce childhood obesity (see H.R. 3772), H7026 [20OC]

——— revise and extend program for viral hepatitis surveillance, education, and testing in order to prevent deaths from chronic liver disease and liver cancer (see S. 1287), S2793 [12MY] (see H.R. 1101), H1368 [26FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: provide for certain requirements relative to immunization of veterans (see S. 172), S201 [13JA]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (see S. 1695), S4648 [25JN] (see S. 2132), S7124 [5OC] (see H.R. 3020), H5087 [10JY]

Diseases: commemorate discovery of polio vaccine and support Federal and international efforts to eradicate disease (see S. Res. 108), S1781 [24MR]

——— improve asthma management, education, and research (see S. 1064), S2400 [23AP]

——— provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes (see S. 84), S58 [7JA] (see H.R. 3658), H6749 [30SE]

Drugs: encourage development and use of new antimicrobial drugs in order to treat antibiotic-resistant infections (see H.R. 512), H532 [22JA]

——— making appropriations to address heroin and opioid drug abuse epidemic (see S. 2423), S8883 [18DE]

——— reduce deaths occurring from overdoses (see S. 1654), S4544 [23JN] (see H.R. 2850), H4591 [23JN]

Firearms: authorize appropriations for firearms safety or gun violence prevention research (see S. 1473), S3455 [2JN] (see H.R. 2612), H3757 [2JN]

Health: prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research (see S. 289), S590 [28JA] (see H.R. 2104), H2653 [29AP]

——— recognize importance of frontline health workers toward accelerating progress on global health and saving lives of women and children (see H. Res. 419), H5980 [15SE]

National Prostate Cancer Council on Screening, Early Detection, Assessment, and Monitoring of Prostate Cancer: establish (see S. 216, 222), S347 [21JA] (see H.R. 2730), H4241 [11JN]

National security: ensure preparedness for chemical, radiological, biological, and nuclear threats (see H.R. 3299), H5763 [29JY]

Research: establish a surveillance system relative to traumatic brain injury (see H.R. 1420), H1767 [18MR]

Sports: conduct a study on the causes of deaths related to high school football and formulate recommendations to prevent such deaths (see H.R. 3986), H8151 [5NO]

Remarks in House

American Diabetes Month: observance, H7399 [3NO], H8288 [18NO], E1668 [19NO]

Children and youth: promote youth athletic safety (H.R. 829), H5986 [16SE], E1324 [18SE], E1336 [22SE]

Dept. of HHS: provide for research relative to Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases, H5014 [9JY]

Drugs: encourage development and use of new antimicrobial drugs in order to treat antibiotic-resistant infections, H5075 [10JY]

——— reduce deaths occurring from overdoses (H.R. 2850), E964 [24JN]

Firearms: authorize appropriations for firearms safety or gun violence prevention research, H6899 [8OC]

——— authorize appropriations for firearms safety or gun violence prevention research (H.R. 2612), E822 [2JN]

Georgia: tribute to efforts in breast cancer research, E1533 [26OC]

Health: conduct study to determine how efforts to incentivize development of new antibiotics may impact antibiotic resistance, H5074, H5075 [10JY]

——— importance of immunizations, H709 [3FE], H765 [4FE], H903 [10FE]

National Prostate Cancer Council on Screening, Early Detection, Assessment, and Monitoring of Prostate Cancer: establish (H.R. 2730), H4388 [16JN], H6292 [28SE]

Research: whistleblower allegations relative to intentional omission of findings from study examining possible relationship between certain vaccines and autism, H5602 [29JY]

Remarks in Senate

American Diabetes Month: support goals and ideals (S. Res. 282), S8111, S8112 [18NO]

Appropriations: making continuing, S6673 [16SE]

Dept. of HHS: coordinate Federal research efforts for, and improve public education and awareness of, congenital heart disease (S. 2248), S7816 [5NO]

——— reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative, S1334 [9MR]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (S. 2132), S7127 [5OC], S7130 [6OC]

Diseases: commemorate discovery of polio vaccine and support Federal and international efforts to eradicate disease (S. Res. 108), S2188 [15AP], S7425 [21OC]

Drugs: reduce deaths occurring from overdoses (S. 1654), S4548 [23JN]

Health: prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research, S1849 [25MR]

——— prioritize funding for an expanded and sustained national investment in biomedical research (S. 289), S744 [4FE], S1401 [11MR], S2188 [15AP], S2632 [5MY], S8063 [18NO]

Reports filed

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 3020) (H. Rept. 114–195), H5087 [10JY]

——— Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1695) (S. Rept. 114–74), S4646 [25JN]

Statements

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Whistleblower Allegations Relative to Intentional Omission of Findings From Study Examining Possible Relationship Between Certain Vaccines and Autism: William Thompson, H5602 [29JY]

Texts of

S. 289, American Cures Act, S600 [28JA]

S. 2248, coordinate Federal research efforts for, and improve public education and awareness of, congenital heart disease, S7817 [5NO]

S. Res. 108, commemorate discovery of polio vaccine and support Federal and international efforts to eradicate disease, S1784 [24MR]

S. Res. 282, support goals and ideals of American Diabetes Month, S7277 [8OC]