Full Title: Ticks: Identify, Control, and Knockout Act. Summary: To provide assistance to combat the escalating burden of Lyme disease and[Read more]
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Category: Health and Human Services
From the DFL Party Platform: “We believe that all people should have the opportunity to be self-sufficient, secure and healthy. Cost-effective and adequately funded programs can help ensure these basic needs.” Here is supportive legislation sponsored/cosponsored by CD2’s Representative, Angie Craig.
H. R. 2818, Summer Meals Act of 2019.
Summary: To amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the efficiency of summer meals. (Cosponsors, Bipartisan) ANGIE[Read more]
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H. R. 4995, Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act of 2019.
Summary: To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve obstetric care and maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes. (Cosponsors,[Read more]
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H. R. 4589, To make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants for the transportation of highly rural veterans to medical care.
Summary: To make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants for the transportation of highly rural[Read more]
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H. R. 2222, Women and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 2019.
Summary: To require a review of women and lung cancer, and for other purposes. (Cosponsors, Bipartisan) ANGIE CRAIG’S POSITION: Representative Craig[Read more]
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H. R. 1109, Mental Health Services for Students Act of 2019.
Summary:T o amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating to children and to provide access[Read more]
Read moreH. R. 4913, To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require PDP sponsors of a prescription drug plan under part D of the Medicare program that use a formulary to include certain generic drugs and biosimilar biological products on such formulary, and for other purposes.
Summary: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require PDP sponsors of a prescription drug plan under part[Read more]
Read moreH. R. 3778, Cady Housh and Gemesha Thomas Student Suicide Prevention Act of 2019.
Summary: To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize certain grants (for youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies) to[Read more]
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H. R. 4194, National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2019.
Summary: This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to designate 9–8–8 as the universal telephone number for a national suicide prevention[Read more]
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H. R. 4243, Rural Maternal and Obstetric Modernization of Services Act.
Summary: This bill expands initiatives to address maternal health in rural areas. The bill provides funding for the Health Resources and Services[Read more]
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