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.

Last progress July 31, 2025 (5 months ago)

Introduced on July 31, 2025 by Shelley Moore Capito

This bill focuses on preventing deaths and serious health problems during and after pregnancy. It keeps federal support for state teams that review maternal deaths. It also tells these teams to work with officials who certify deaths to improve death records and fix cause-of-death details when needed, so we learn more from each case and prevent future tragedies .

It requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to share proven safety steps with hospitals, state professional groups, and perinatal quality collaboratives at least once every year. These best practices should reflect what other federal maternal health programs have already found to work. The bill also extends funding authorization for this work through fiscal years 2026 to 2030 .

• Who is affected: Hospitals, state professional societies, perinatal quality collaboratives, and state maternal death review teams .
• What changes: Better coordination to improve death certificates; CDC must share best practices every year; continued federal support for state review work .
• When: Annual best-practice updates; funding authorization extended for fiscal years 2026–2030 .