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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1197
To reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for
Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY11, 2025
Ms. K
ELLYof Illinois (for herself, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr.
C
ARTERof Georgia, Ms. BROWN, and Mrs. KIGGANSof Virginia) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy
and Commerce
A BILL
To reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and
Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act.
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. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘PREEMIE Reauthor-4
ization Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. PREEMIE. 6
(a) R
ESEARCHRELATING TOPRETERMLABOR AND 7
D
ELIVERY AND THECARE, TREATMENT, ANDOUTCOMES 8
OFPRETERM ANDLOWBIRTHWEIGHTINFANTS.— 9
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3(e) of the Pre-1
maturity Research Expansion and Education for 2
Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act (42 U.S.C. 3
247b–4f(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 4
2019 through 2023’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 5
2025 through 2029’’. 6
(2) T
ECHNICAL CORRECTION .—Effective as if 7
included in the enactment of the PREEMIE Reau-8
thorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–328), sec-9
tion 2 of such Act is amended, in the matter pre-10
ceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Section 2’’ and 11
inserting ‘‘Section 3’’. 12
(b) I
NTERAGENCY WORKINGGROUP.—Section 5(a) 13
of the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public 14
Law 115–328) is amended by striking ‘‘The Secretary of 15
Health and Human Services, in collaboration with other 16
departments, as appropriate, may establish’’ and inserting 17
‘‘Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment 18
of the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2025, the Sec-19
retary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration 20
with other departments, as appropriate, shall establish’’. 21
(c) S
TUDY ONPRETERMBIRTHS.— 22
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 23
Human Services shall enter into appropriate ar-24
rangements with the National Academies of 25
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Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under which 1
the National Academies shall— 2
(A) not later than 30 days after the date 3
of enactment of this Act, convene a committee 4
of experts in maternal health to study pre-5
mature births in the United States; and 6
(B) upon completion of the study under 7
subparagraph (A)— 8
(i) approve by consensus a report on 9
the results of such study; 10
(ii) include in such report— 11
(I) an assessment of each of the 12
topics listed in paragraph (2); 13
(II) the analysis required by 14
paragraph (3); and 15
(III) the raw data used to de-16
velop such report; and 17
(iii) not later than 24 months after 18
the date of enactment of this Act, transmit 19
such report to— 20
(I) the Secretary of Health and 21
Human Services; 22
(II) the Committee on Energy 23
and Commerce of the House of Rep-24
resentatives; and 25
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(III) the Committee on Finance 1
and the Committee on Health, Edu-2
cation, Labor, and Pensions of the 3
Senate. 4
(2) A
SSESSMENT TOPICS.—The topics listed in 5
this subsection are each of the following: 6
(A) The financial costs of premature birth 7
to society, including— 8
(i) an analysis of stays in neonatal in-9
tensive care units and the cost of such 10
stays; 11
(ii) long-term costs of stays in such 12
units to society and the family involved 13
post-discharge; and 14
(iii) health care costs for families 15
post-discharge from such units (such as 16
medications, therapeutic services, co-pay-17
ments for visits, and specialty equipment). 18
(B) The factors that impact preterm birth 19
rates. 20
(C) Opportunities for earlier detection of 21
premature birth risk factors, including— 22
(i) opportunities to improve maternal 23
and infant health; and 24
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(ii) opportunities for public health 1
programs to provide support and resources 2
for parents in-hospital, in non-hospital set-3
tings, and post-discharge. 4
(3) A
NALYSIS.—The analysis required by this 5
subsection is an analysis of— 6
(A) targeted research strategies to develop 7
effective drugs, treatments, or interventions to 8
bring at-risk pregnancies to term; 9
(B) State and other programs’ best prac-10
tices with respect to reducing premature birth 11
rates; and 12
(C) precision medicine and preventative 13
care approaches starting early in the life course 14
(including during pregnancy) with a focus on 15
behavioral and biological influences on pre-16
mature birth, child health, and the trajectory of 17
such approaches into adulthood. 18
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