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HR 5438 116th Congress House

End Valley Fever Now Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award grants to develop… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award grants to develop programs to increase health care providers' awareness of Valley fever, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 18, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Dec 17, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Dec 16, 2019
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 16, 2019
Introduced in House
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 Latest action December 17, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

End Valley Fever Now Act

This bill provides various supports to address the occurrence of valley fever, which is an infection caused by the fungus Coccidioides that is commonly found in the southwestern United States as well as parts of Mexico, Central America, and South America.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 10
All 10 Democratic 7
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Stanton, Greg
Arizona · Jan 24, 2020
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Brownley, Julia
California · Dec 18, 2019
DAVIS, SUSAN
· Dec 18, 2019
 D
Vargas, Juan
California · Dec 17, 2019
 D
Costa, Jim
California · Dec 16, 2019
 D
Gallego, Ruben
Arizona · Dec 16, 2019
 D
Harder, Josh
California · Dec 16, 2019
Kirkpatrick, Ann
· Dec 16, 2019
O'Halleran, Tom
· Dec 16, 2019
 D
Panetta, Jimmy
California · Dec 16, 2019
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5438: End Valley Fever Now Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5438/
MLA
"H.R. 5438: End Valley Fever Now Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5438/.
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H.R. 5438, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5438/.
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[H.R. 5438: End Valley Fever Now Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5438/)
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