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.

Summary

Amends the federal maternal mortality review committee law to expand committee duties and coordination powers, let committees work directly with death certifiers to improve and amend cause-of-death information when appropriate, and require CDC (in consultation with HRSA) to distribute maternal mortality prevention best practices at least once per year to hospitals, state professional societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives. The bill also attempts to update the statute’s authorized funding for these activities for fiscal years 2026–2030, but the draft text includes a typographical error in the replacement funding amount.

• Expands maternal mortality review committees’ duties and coordination authority, including working with death certifiers.
• Permits amendment of cause-of-death information on death certificates when committee findings justify changes.
• Requires CDC, with HRSA consultation, to annually share maternal mortality prevention best practices with hospitals, state professional societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives.
• Directs the Secretary (through the CDC Director) to implement these duties and coordinate with HRSA.
• Attempts to update authorized funding for FY2026–2030, but the text contains a typographical error in the replacement amount.
• Focuses on improving data quality and spreading evidence-based prevention practices rather than creating a new program.
• Does not itself appropriate funds; any spending would depend on future appropriations aligned with the authorization.
• Targets institutional actors (hospitals, professional societies, collaboratives) and public health agencies for dissemination and coordination.