Plain English Breakdown
The official status shows the bill passed both chambers, but no effective date is listed in the provided metadata.
Two-Year Pilot Program for Home Visits to Help Children with Asthma
This bill creates a two-year test program where the Department of Public Health sends trained visitors into homes of children with asthma to help families find and reduce things that trigger breathing problems.
What This Bill Does
- Creates a two-year pilot program for home visits in Georgia.
- Requires training for the people who visit these homes.
- Allows workers to check the home environment for asthma triggers.
- Provides administrative and technical help to run the program.
- Sets up rules to study if the program works well through evaluation and reporting.
- Ends the program after two years unless new laws are made.
Who It Names or Affects
- Families with children who have asthma
- The Georgia Department of Public Health
Terms To Know
- Pilot program
- A test project run for a short time to see if it works before making it permanent.
- Home visiting
- When trained workers go into people's houses to give help or check on conditions.
- Asthma triggers
- Things in the air or home that make asthma symptoms worse, which families are helped to identify and reduce.
Limits and Unknowns
- The program only lasts for two years and then stops automatically.
- The text does not say exactly how much money will be used to pay for this work.
- It is not clear which specific families or areas in Georgia will get these visits first.