Bill Details
HR.1909 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-06 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-03-06
Policy Area
Health
Committees
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Cosponsors
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- Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-Colorado-1]
- Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-Illinois-2]
- Rep. Cammack, Kat [R-Florida-3]
- Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-Florida-14]
- Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-Pennsylvania-7]
- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-Maryland-7]
- Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-District of Columbia]
- Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-Wisconsin-4]
- Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-Massachusetts-6]
- Rep. Larson, John B. [D-Connecticut-1]
- Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-Virginia-1]
- Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-California-18]
- Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-Kansas-3]
- Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-Pennsylvania-6]
- Rep. Soto, Darren [D-Florida-9]
- Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-California-22]
- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-Delaware]
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-Massachusetts-8]
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-New York-20]
- Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-Connecticut-5]
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This bill would continue and expand federal efforts to prevent deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth. It would keep support going for state teams that study maternal deaths, make those review teams more complete by including more obstetric experts, and improve how death information is collected. It would also require the federal government to share updated best practices with hospitals and other health groups each year, and it would raise the funding level for these efforts for the next several years.
- It reauthorizes support for state-based maternal mortality review committees, which look at why pregnant and postpartum women die and how those deaths might have been prevented.
- It adds more detail to how these review committees work, including better involvement from obstetricians and gynecologists and improved coordination with people who certify deaths.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with help from the Health Resources and Services Administration, would have to share best practices on preventing maternal deaths and serious complications with hospitals, state medical groups, and perinatal quality collaboratives at least once a year.
- It increases authorized funding for this program to $100 million per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1909 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1909
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for
State-based maternal mortality review committees, to direct the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate best practices on
maternal mortality prevention to hospitals, State-based professional
societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 6, 2025
Mr. Carter of Georgia (for himself, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Kelly of Illinois,
Mrs. Cammack, Ms. Castor of Florida, and Mr. Mackenzie) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and
Commerce
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A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for
State-based maternal mortality review committees, to direct the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate best practices on
maternal mortality prevention to hospitals, State-based professional
societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Maternal Deaths
Reauthorization Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. PREVENTING MATERNAL DEATHS.
(a) Maternal Mortality Review Committee.--Section 317K(d) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-12(d)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ``(including
obstetricians and gynecologists)'' after ``clinical
specialties''; and
(2) in paragraph (3)(A)(i)--
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ``as applicable''
and inserting ``if available''; and
(B) in subclause (III), by striking ``, as
appropriate'' and inserting ``and coordinating with
death certifiers to improve the collection of death
record reports and the quality of death records,
including by amending cause-of-death information on a
death certificate, as appropriate''.
(b) Best Practices Relating to the Prevention of Maternal
Mortality.--Section 317K of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
247b-12) is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections
(f) and (g), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
``(e) Best Practices Relating to the Prevention of Maternal
Mortality.--
``(1) In general.--The Secretary, acting through the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the Health
Resources and Services Administration, disseminate to
hospitals, State professional society groups, and perinatal
quality collaboratives, best practices on how to prevent
maternal mortality and morbidity that consider and reflect best
practices identified through other relevant Federal maternal
health programs.
``(2) Frequency.--The Secretary, acting through the
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
shall disseminate the best practices referred to in paragraph
(1) not less than once per fiscal year.''.
(c) Extension.--Subsection (g) of section 317K of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b-12), as redesignated by subsection (b), is
amended by striking ``$58,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through
2023'' and inserting ``$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025
through 2029''.
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