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The bill increases multi‑year federal support and outreach to raise maternal and childhood vaccination rates and standardize obstetric vaccine counseling, improving public health outcomes while adding modest multi‑year federal costs and creating possible budgetary tradeoffs for state and local health programs.
Pregnant and postpartum people — and their children, especially racial and ethnic minorities — will have increased access to vaccination outreach, materials, and programs because the CDC receives multi‑year funding for a national vaccination awareness campaign, supporting higher vaccination rates.
Pregnant people will likely get more consistent vaccine counseling across prenatal and obstetric care settings because obstetric providers are explicitly included in the program objectives.
State and local health departments and health systems may need to shift grant proposals or local budgets to align with the added maternal vaccination objective, potentially reprioritizing limited public‑health resources.
Taxpayers will fund a multi‑year increase in federal vaccine campaign spending (several million dollars per year through FY2027–2031), modestly raising federal spending obligations.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Expands federal vaccination outreach to obstetric providers, adds maternal vaccination objectives to preventive-services grants, and raises authorized campaign funding to $7M per year for FY2027–2031.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by Timothy Michael Kaine · Last progress March 18, 2026
Expands federal public health efforts to increase vaccinations for pregnant and postpartum people by adding obstetric providers to the national vaccination awareness campaign, adding maternal vaccination goals to preventive-services grant purposes, and raising specified grant funding to $7 million per year for FY2027–2031. The bill directs federal outreach and grant activities to explicitly include prenatal, obstetric, and pediatric providers and to prioritize increasing vaccination rates among pregnant and postpartum individuals (including racial and ethnic minority groups) and their children.