119-s2621

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2621 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2621

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 31, 2025

 Mrs. Capito (for herself, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Booker, Ms. 
 Smith, 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 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. 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 frequently 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 2026 
through 2030''.
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