S. 628 · 114th Congress
Improving Access to Maternity Care Act
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Baldwin
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Brown
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Boozman
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Klobuchar
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Gillibrand
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Gardner
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Merkley
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Murkowski
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Heinrich1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to designate maternity care health professional shortage areas and review these designations at least annually.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 3, 2015
Improving Access to Maternity Care Act
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to designate maternity care health professional shortage areas and review these designations at least annually.
The Department of Health and Human Services must collect and publish data on health professional shortage areas so availability of maternal health professionals can be compared by professional category and geographic region.
A maternity care health professional shortage area is: (1) an area determined to have a shortage of providers of full scope maternity care health services or of hospital or birth center labor and delivery units, or (2) a population group determined to have a shortage of such providers or facilities.
Full scope maternity care health services include care during labor, birthing, prenatal care, and postpartum care.Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Improving Access to Maternity Care Act
Latest action (Mar 3, 2015): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 3, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.