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Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] · D–WA
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-09-21 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The proposed South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act of 2026 would allow additional federal grants to states for heart-health education, community activities, and research. The grants would focus on communities disproportionately affected by heart disease, including South Asian communities. Research could also address type 2 diabetes and other heart-related conditions.
This Act may be cited as the South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act of 2026.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may award supplemental grant funds to States receiving Federal funding for heart health activities.
Such supplemental funds shall be used to promote awareness of the increasing prevalence of heart disease, including, where appropriate, its relationship to type 2 diabetes, in communities disproportionately affected by heart disease, such as South Asian communities in the United States.
conduct or support research and related activities regarding cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and other heart health-related ailments among at-risk populations, including South Asian communities in the United States.
The Department of Health and Human Services, acting through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, could award additional grants to states already receiving federal heart-health funding. Awards would be discretionary. The money would have to promote awareness of heart disease in disproportionately affected communities and, where appropriate, its relationship to type 2 diabetes.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may award supplemental grant funds to States receiving Federal funding for heart health activities. Such supplemental funds shall be used to promote awareness of the increasing prevalence of heart disease, including, where appropriate, its relationship to type 2 diabetes, in communities disproportionately affected by heart disease, such as South Asian communities in the United States.
States receiving grants would have to use them for one or more listed purposes. These include developing culturally appropriate, evidence-based materials about nutrition, diet, and exercise, or supporting heart-health activities by community organizations serving disproportionately affected communities.
A State that receives supplemental grant funds under subsection (a) shall use such grant funds to— (1) develop culturally appropriate materials on evidence-based heart health promotion topics, such as nutrition education, optimal diet plans, and programs for regular exercise; (2) support heart health promotion activities of community organizations that work with or serve communities disproportionately affected by heart disease, such as South Asian communities in the United States;
or (4) conduct or support research and related activities regarding cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and other heart health-related ailments among at-risk populations, including South Asian communities in the United States.
Other permitted uses would include conferences and workshops about changing heart-disease research methods to include more people from disproportionately affected communities. States could also conduct or support research and related activities on heart and blood-vessel disease, type 2 diabetes, and other heart-related conditions among at-risk populations, including South Asian communities.
(3) support, with respect to research conducted relating to heart disease, conferences and workshops on how practices, methodologies, and designs of such research should be changed to include in such research more members of communities disproportionately affected by heart disease, such as South Asian communities in the United States; or (4) conduct or support research and related activities regarding cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and other heart health-related ailments among at-risk populations, including South Asian communities in the United States.
Within two years after enactment, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would have to report to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The report would cover grant-supported activities and heart-disease data for disproportionately affected communities.
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on activities supported under subsection (a) and data relating to heart disease in communities disproportionately affected by heart disease.
The bill would authorize Congress to provide $2 million for each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030 to carry out the grant section. This authorizes future funding; it does not itself appropriate, or provide, that money.
For purposes of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated October 7, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 21, 2026.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-07T19:14:35Z. 2026-09-21: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 2026-09-21: Introduced in House
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