United States HR 8658: NASH Care Act of 2020

Bill Text

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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 8658
To establish a Federal strategy for preventing, diagnosing, and treating
nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, commonly referred to as ‘‘NASH’’.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Mr. CRENSHAW (for himself and Mr. RUIZ) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To establish a Federal strategy for preventing, diagnosing,
and treating nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, commonly re-
ferred to as ‘‘NASH’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Care Act of 2020’’ or the 5
‘‘NASH Care Act of 2020’’. 6
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 7
this Act is as follows: 8
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. National prevention program for diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver dis-
ease, and metabolic syndrome.
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Sec. 3. Grants for community-based patient education and provider training
and outreach.
Sec. 4. National Academies of Sciences study on education and policy needs for
nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Sec. 5. National surveillance program for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and
nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Sec. 6. Recommendations for the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treat-
ment of interrelated conditions developed by multidisciplinary
task force.
Sec. 7. Renaming of NIH institute to reflect liver diseases and creation of divi-
sion of liver diseases.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR DIABETES, 1
NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE, AND 2
METABOLIC SYNDROME. 3
Section 399V–3 of the Public Health Service Act 4
(280g–14) is amended— 5
(1) in subsection (a)— 6
(A) by inserting ‘‘or continue’’ after ‘‘es-7
tablish’’; 8
(B) by striking ‘‘national diabetes’’; 9
(C) by inserting ‘‘, nonalcoholic fatty liver 10
disease, and metabolic syndrome’’ after ‘‘high 11
risk for diabetes’’; and 12
(D) by striking ‘‘burden of diabetes’’ and 13
inserting ‘‘such conditions’’; 14
(2) in subsection (b)— 15
(A) by striking paragraph (1) 16
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) 17
through (4) as paragraphs (3) through (5); and 18
(C) by inserting before paragraph (3) (as 19
so redesignated) the following; 20
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‘‘(1) competitive grants to eligible entities for 1
the purposes of identifying, developing, or dissemi-2
nating best practices on the prevention, detection, 3
and treatment of diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver 4
disease, and metabolic syndrome; 5
‘‘(2) competitive grants for eligible entities for 6
the development of community-based prevention pro-7
gram model sites;’’; 8
(3) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-9
section (e); 10
(4) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-11
lowing: 12
‘‘(d) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants under sub-13
section (b), the Secretary may give preference to eligible 14
entities that— 15
‘‘(1) provide lifestyle interventions, including 16
nutrition and exercise consultation; and 17
‘‘(2) serve racial and ethnic minority commu-18
nities with high rates of diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty 19
liver disease, and metabolic syndrome.’’ ; and 20
(5) in subsection (e) (as redesignated by para-21
graph (3)), by striking ‘‘such sums as may be nec-22
essary for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014’’ 23
and inserting ‘‘$27,300,000 for each of fiscal years 24
2021 through 2025’’. 25
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SEC. 3. GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED PATIENT EDU-1
CATION AND PROVIDER TRAINING AND OUT-2
REACH. 3
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 4
Human Services, acting through the Director of the Cen-5
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish 6
a grant program under which the Secretary may award 7
grants to eligible entities to provide education in the pre-8
vention of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (referred to in this 9
Act as ‘‘NASH’’), which shall be know as the National 10
NASH Prevention and Education Program (referred to in 11
this section as ‘‘the Program’’). To the extent practicable, 12
the Secretary shall align such program with the eligibility 13
criteria to receive grants under the National Diabetes Pre-14
vention Program of the Centers for Disease Control and 15
Prevention. 16
(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—An entity is eligible to re-17
ceived a grant under the Program if such entity— 18
(1)(A) provides lifestyle interventions such as 19
promotion of liver health interventions or nutrition