Bill > SF2007

This bill requires the Department of Human Services to collaborate with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Education to identify and leverage funding sources, including Medicaid, to expand evidence-based home visiting services for women and infants. The bill aims to promote healthy pregnancies, positive birth outcomes, and healthy infant growth and development. The departments must involve stakeholders in designing an approach that maximizes coordination and integration of programs, reduces duplication, and ensures the services meet federal evidence-based criteria. The approach must provide evidence-based home visiting services to women prenatally, during pregnancy, and postpartum, including mental and physical health, social, educational, and other services based on identified risk factors and needs. The Department of Human Services may conduct a feasibility study and seek federal approval for a Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver to administer this program.