S.Amdt. 3826

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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