US Congress Senate Bill 628 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 3 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Improving Access to Maternity Care Act

Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-03	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB1209 (Same As) 2016-11-15 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/628/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s628/BILLS-114s628is.pdf