Supporting the designation of the week of April 11 through April 17, 2019 as "Black Maternal Health Week".

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

AAD AdamsSponsor

65 cosponsors · 64 D, 1 R

SBD Bonamici JBD Beatty JBD Brownley LBD Blunt Rochester ECD Cummings KCD Castor YCD Clarke SCD Cohen ACD Carson JCD Castro CCD Crist JCD Cunningham DDD DeGette RDD DeLauro MDD Doyle DDD Dingell MFD Fudge RGD Gallego SHD Horsford DHD Haaland JHD Hayes EJD Johnson JKD Kennedy RKD Kelly RKD Khanna RKD Krishnamoorthi NLD Lowey BLD Lee ALD Lowenthal BLD Lawrence ALD Lawson CMD Maloney BMD McCollum GMD Moore SMD Maloney GMD Meng LMD McBath JND Nadler END Norton IOD Omar DPD Payne MPD Pocan SPD Plaskett APD Pressley LRD Roybal-Allard TRD Ryan JSD Serrano JSD Schakowsky DSD Scott JSD Speier DSD Shalala RTD Tlaib LUD Underwood MVD Veasey DWD Wasserman Schultz FWD Wilson SWD Wild SJD Jackson Lee JLD Lewis TSD Sewell NTD Torres BWD Watson Coleman ABD Brown JHR Herrera Beutler SMD Moulton

57 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This resolution recognizes that (1) Black Maternal Health Week is an opportunity to raise national awareness of the state of black maternal health in the United States; and (2) black women experience high, disproportionate rates of maternal mortality and morbidity.