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Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

USA119th CongressHR-3762| House 
| Updated: 6/5/2025
Jared F. Golden

Jared F. Golden

Democratic Representative

Maine

Cosponsors (14)
Joyce Beatty (Democratic)Jennifer L. McClellan (Democratic)Patrick Ryan (Democratic)Robert J. Wittman (Republican)Young Kim (Republican)Suzan K. DelBene (Democratic)Donald G. Davis (Democratic)Ted Lieu (Democratic)Nikki Budzinski (Democratic)Emilia Strong Sykes (Democratic)Daniel S. Goldman (Democratic)Josh Harder (Democratic)David G. Valadao (Republican)Ryan Mackenzie (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
This legislation, titled the "Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act," aims to significantly enhance access to maternal and newborn health care by amending existing federal health laws. Its primary goal is to ensure that comprehensive prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum services are covered as essential health benefits and are provided without any cost-sharing requirements for individuals. The bill specifically expands the definition of essential health benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to include a wide range of services. These encompass ultrasounds, care for spontaneous pregnancy loss, and extensive delivery services such as anesthesiology and specialist consultations. It also mandates coverage for non-preventive postpartum care, including behavioral health services for conditions exacerbated by pregnancy, and defines the postpartum period as one year following the end of pregnancy. Furthermore, the bill extends behavioral health services to legal parents of a new child who do not physically give birth, covering them for one year after the child's birth. Crucially, the legislation prohibits group health plans and health insurance issuers from imposing any deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance for these newly defined and expanded maternity and newborn care benefits. These changes are designed to apply to plan years beginning on or after the act's enactment date, effectively integrating these provisions into the original framework of the Affordable Care Act.
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Timeline
May 21, 2025

Latest Companion Bill Action

S 119-1834
Introduced in Senate
Jun 5, 2025
Introduced in House
Jun 5, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • May 21, 2025

    Latest Companion Bill Action

    S 119-1834
    Introduced in Senate


  • June 5, 2025
    Introduced in House


  • June 5, 2025
    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Health

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  • S 119-1834: Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

USA119th CongressHR-3762| House 
| Updated: 6/5/2025
This legislation, titled the "Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act," aims to significantly enhance access to maternal and newborn health care by amending existing federal health laws. Its primary goal is to ensure that comprehensive prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum services are covered as essential health benefits and are provided without any cost-sharing requirements for individuals. The bill specifically expands the definition of essential health benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to include a wide range of services. These encompass ultrasounds, care for spontaneous pregnancy loss, and extensive delivery services such as anesthesiology and specialist consultations. It also mandates coverage for non-preventive postpartum care, including behavioral health services for conditions exacerbated by pregnancy, and defines the postpartum period as one year following the end of pregnancy. Furthermore, the bill extends behavioral health services to legal parents of a new child who do not physically give birth, covering them for one year after the child's birth. Crucially, the legislation prohibits group health plans and health insurance issuers from imposing any deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance for these newly defined and expanded maternity and newborn care benefits. These changes are designed to apply to plan years beginning on or after the act's enactment date, effectively integrating these provisions into the original framework of the Affordable Care Act.
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Timeline
May 21, 2025

Latest Companion Bill Action

S 119-1834
Introduced in Senate
Jun 5, 2025
Introduced in House
Jun 5, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • May 21, 2025

    Latest Companion Bill Action

    S 119-1834
    Introduced in Senate


  • June 5, 2025
    Introduced in House


  • June 5, 2025
    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jared F. Golden

Jared F. Golden

Democratic Representative

Maine

Cosponsors (14)
Joyce Beatty (Democratic)Jennifer L. McClellan (Democratic)Patrick Ryan (Democratic)Robert J. Wittman (Republican)Young Kim (Republican)Suzan K. DelBene (Democratic)Donald G. Davis (Democratic)Ted Lieu (Democratic)Nikki Budzinski (Democratic)Emilia Strong Sykes (Democratic)Daniel S. Goldman (Democratic)Josh Harder (Democratic)David G. Valadao (Republican)Ryan Mackenzie (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee

Health

Related Bills

  • S 119-1834: Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted