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HR 1031 110th Congress House

Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities.

Introduced: March 29, 2007 Introduced by: Waters, Maxine Democratic · California See on congress.gov
Health Community health servicesDiabetesEconomics and Public FinanceEye care
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Federal aid to health facilitiesGovernment Operations and PoliticsHealth educationKidney diseasesLanguage and languagesMinoritiesMinority healthPreventive medicine
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Feb 14, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Feb 13, 2007
Introduced in House
Feb 13, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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 Latest action February 14, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Minority Diabetes Initiative Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such grants cover a variety of diabetes-related health care services, including routine care for diabetic patients, public education on diabetes prevention and control, eye care, foot care, and treatment for kidney disease and other complications of diabetes.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 10
All 10 Democratic 10
D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 29, 2007
 D
Hirono, Mazie K.
Hawaii · Mar 21, 2007
 D
Cuellar, Henry
Texas · Mar 6, 2007
 D
Green, Al
Texas · Mar 6, 2007
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Mar 6, 2007
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Mar 1, 2007
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Mar 1, 2007
 D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Mar 1, 2007
 D
DeGette, Diana
Colorado · Feb 13, 2007
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Feb 13, 2007
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1031: Minority Diabetes Initiative Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-1031/
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"H.R. 1031: Minority Diabetes Initiative Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-1031/.
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H.R. 1031, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-1031/.
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