Official Summaries

Pregnant and Postpartum Women Treatment Reauthorization Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 the Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women program, which is administered by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This program awards grants to fund services for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders, including services for treatment, recovery support, and case management.

The bill also specifically allows grant recipients to conduct outreach that is targeted at women disproportionately impacted by maternal substance use disorders.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1004 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1004

 To reauthorize the program to support residential treatment programs 
       for pregnant and postpartum women, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2025

  Mr. Lujan (for himself, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Ms. Klobuchar, 
 Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was 
 read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
                              and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reauthorize the program to support residential treatment programs 
       for pregnant and postpartum women, 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 ``Pregnant and Postpartum Women 
Treatment Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.

    Section 508 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb-1) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(11)(C), by striking ``providing 
        health services'' and inserting ``providing health care 
        services'';
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) by inserting ``a plan describing'' after ``will 
                provide''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following: ``Such plan 
                may include a description of how such applicant will 
                target outreach to women disproportionately impacted by 
                maternal substance use disorder.''; and
            (3) in subsection (s), by striking ``$29,931,000 for each 
        of fiscal years 2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``$38,931,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029''.
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