Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill renews and strengthens efforts to prevent mothers from dying during pregnancy and after birth. It continues federal support for state teams that review these deaths, requires the CDC (working with HRSA) to share proven safety practices with hospitals and professional groups every year, and improves how states work with death certifiers so death records are more accurate, including updating the cause of death when needed.

• Who is affected: Hospitals, state medical groups, perinatal quality collaboratives, and state maternal mortality review teams; families benefit from safer care.
• What changes: The CDC must send out best practices at least once each year; states coordinate with death certifiers to improve death records and causes of death; support for state review teams is reauthorized.
• When: Funding and activities are extended through fiscal years 2025–2029.