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H.R. 1149: Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003

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H.R. 1149: Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003

108th Congress · introduced 2003-03-06 · Health · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2630)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2003-03-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2630) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003

Plain summary

Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects for specified asthma-related activities for low-income communities, including screening and referrals, information and education, and workshops for parents and other individuals who supervise children. Authorizes the Secretary also to award contracts to provide for a national media campaign to inform the public and health care providers on asthma, allergies, and related respiratory problems, especially in children. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer licensed and engaged in the trade or business of providing pest control services or heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services, an income tax credit for the aggregate cost of providing such services without charge to: (1) public housing; or (2) any multifamily residential rental property at least 75 percent of whose occupants are reasonably expected to have incomes below 200 percent of the official poverty line. Requires the Secretary to disseminate information about such credit. Directs the Secretary to provide for research into whether and to what extent there is a causal relationship between air pollutants and the occurrence of asthma, allergies, and related respiratory problems. Requires the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, through the National Asthma Education Prevention Program Coordinating Committee, to: (1) identify all Federal programs that carry out asthma-related activities; and (2) develop and submit to Congress a Federal plan for responding to asthma.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Asthma Awareness, Education and Treatment Act of 2003

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37] · 7 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong108-hr1149 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong108 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong108