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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1909 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for State- |
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| 6 | 6 | | based maternal mortality review committees, to direct the Secretary |
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| 7 | 7 | | of Health and Human Services to disseminate best practices on maternal |
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| 8 | 8 | | mortality prevention to hospitals, State-based professional societies, and |
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| 9 | 9 | | perinatal quality collaboratives, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | MARCH6, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. C |
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| 13 | 13 | | ARTERof Georgia (for himself, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. KELLYof Illinois, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mrs. C |
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| 15 | 15 | | AMMACK, Ms. CASTORof Florida, and Mr. MACKENZIE) introduced |
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| 16 | 16 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and |
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| 17 | 17 | | Commerce |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize sup- |
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| 20 | 20 | | port for State-based maternal mortality review commit- |
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| 21 | 21 | | tees, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Serv- |
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| 22 | 22 | | ices to disseminate best practices on maternal mortality |
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| 23 | 23 | | prevention to hospitals, State-based professional societies, |
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| 24 | 24 | | and perinatal quality collaboratives, and for other pur- |
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| 25 | 25 | | poses. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | •HR 1909 IH |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Maternal 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2025’’. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SEC. 2. PREVENTING MATERNAL DEATHS. 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (a) M |
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| 36 | 36 | | ATERNALMORTALITYREVIEWCOMMITTEE.— 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Section 317K(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | U.S.C. 247b–12(d)) is amended— 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ‘‘(includ-8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ing obstetricians and gynecologists)’’ after ‘‘clinical 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | specialties’’; and 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (2) in paragraph (3)(A)(i)— 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘as appli-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | cable’’ and inserting ‘‘if available’’; and 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) in subclause (III), by striking ‘‘, as ap-14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | propriate’’ and inserting ‘‘and coordinating with 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | death certifiers to improve the collection of 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | death record reports and the quality of death 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | records, including by amending cause-of-death 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | information on a death certificate, as appro-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | priate’’. 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (b) B |
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| 53 | 53 | | ESTPRACTICESRELATING TO THE PREVEN-21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | TION OFMATERNALMORTALITY.—Section 317K of the 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b–12) is amend-23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ed— 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | subsections (f) and (g), respectively; and 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | •HR 1909 IH |
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| 62 | 62 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | lowing: 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(e) B |
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| 65 | 65 | | ESTPRACTICESRELATING TO THE PREVEN-3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | TION OFMATERNALMORTALITY.— 4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 68 | 68 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | through the Director of the Centers for Disease 6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Control and Prevention, shall, in consultation with 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the Administrator of the Health Resources and Serv-8 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ices Administration, disseminate to hospitals, State 9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | professional society groups, and perinatal quality 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | collaboratives, best practices on how to prevent ma-11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ternal mortality and morbidity that consider and re-12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | flect best practices identified through other relevant 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | Federal maternal health programs. 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(2) F |
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| 79 | 79 | | REQUENCY.—The Secretary, acting 15 |
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| 80 | 80 | | through the Director of the Centers for Disease 16 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Control and Prevention, shall disseminate the best 17 |
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| 82 | 82 | | practices referred to in paragraph (1) not less than 18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | once per fiscal year.’’. 19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (c) E |
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| 85 | 85 | | XTENSION.—Subsection (g) of section 317K of 20 |
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| 86 | 86 | | the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b–12), as 21 |
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| 87 | 87 | | redesignated by subsection (b), is amended by striking 22 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ‘‘$58,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023’’ 23 |
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| 91 | 91 | | •HR 1909 IH |
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| 92 | 92 | | and inserting ‘‘$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 1 |
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| 93 | 93 | | through 2029’’. 2 |
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