US Congress Senate Bill 783 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: Introduced on March 30 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-30 - 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 (HRSA) to identify maternity care health professional target areas, which are areas within health professional shortage areas that have a shortage of maternity care health professionals, for purposes of assigning maternity care health professionals to those areas. HRSA must collect and publish data comparing the availability of and need for maternity care health services in health professional shortage areas and areas within those areas.

Improving Access to Maternity Care Act

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-30	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB315 (Same As) 2018-12-17 - Became Public Law No: 115-320.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/783/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s783/BILLS-115s783is.pdf