Midwives for MOMS Act of 2025

This bill aims to grow the maternity care workforce by helping more people train as midwives and nurse-midwives. It would fund grants to colleges to support students, expand accredited programs, and add more clinical trainers (preceptors). Priority goes to programs that prepare graduates to work in areas with too few providers and that increase racial and ethnic diversity in midwifery education . It also sets aside money from 2025 through 2029 and divides it so half goes to student support, and the rest is split between expanding programs and building up preceptors . A separate section does the same for nurse-midwifery programs in schools of nursing, with its own funding for 2025–2029 and the same 50/25/25 split .

One part bars using these midwifery school grants inside schools of nursing, while the nurse-midwifery grants are specifically for schools of nursing. This keeps two tracks: one for midwifery programs outside nursing schools, and one for nurse-midwifery programs within them .

• Who is affected: Students training to become midwives and nurse-midwives; colleges running accredited programs; communities with shortages in maternity care .
• What changes: New and expanded grants for tuition support, program growth, and more clinical preceptors; priority for shortage areas and diversity efforts; separate funding streams for midwifery and nurse-midwifery programs .
• When: Funding is authorized for fiscal years 2025–2029, with $15 million for midwifery programs and $20 million for nurse-midwifery programs, each allocated 50% to student aid, 25% to program expansion, and 25% to preceptors .