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Introduced Session

To make investments in community-based organizations and other initiatives to prevent maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, especially for Black women, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to improve outcomes and reduce bias, racism, and discrimination in maternal care settings. Specifically, HHS must award grants to (1) community-based programs to improve maternal health outcomes for African American women, (2) eligible entities to provide certain training to health care providers and others who work in maternity care settings, and (3) specified health care facilities to establish respectful maternity care compliance offices. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine must study issues related to the training programs, and the Government Accountability Office must study the implementation and impact of the compliance offices.

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Alma Adams (D)*,  Karen Bass (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Lisa Blunt Rochester (D),  G. Butterfield (D),  André Carson (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Lacy Clay (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Abby Finkenauer (D),  Sylvia Garcia (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Debra Haaland (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Brenda Lawrence (D),  Al Lawson (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Ayanna Pressley (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  Mary Gay Scanlon (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Adam Smith (D),  David Trone (D),  Lauren Underwood (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (on 03/09/2020)

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