S2621 U.S. Senate: Reauthorizes State-based maternal…

S.2621

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.

Introduced

S. 2621

Introduced in Senate · August 8, 2025

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

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—