HR 1966
Mamas and Babies in Underserved Communities Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill creates a program to provide grants to health care providers who serve minority, low-income, or medically underserved communities. These grants will be used to expand and improve maternal health care services, including prenatal, postnatal, and postpartum care, with the goal of reducing disparities in access to and quality of care for women and infants. The grants prioritize providers led by individuals from the communities they serve and require culturally appropriate services.
Key provisions
- Grants awarded to public or nonprofit private health care providers.
- Services to include prenatal, postnatal, and postpartum care.
- Priority given to providers serving minority, low-income, or medically underserved communities.
- Grantees must provide culturally and linguistically appropriate care.
- Administrative expenses limited to 10% of grant funds.
- Grantees must coordinate with other federally funded maternal health activities.
- Eligible entities must be geographically located in the communities served.
- Authorization of appropriations through 2030.
Who is affected
- Healthcare providers
- Minority communities
- Low-income communities
- Medically underserved communities
- Women and infants
Notable changes
- Establishes a dedicated funding stream for maternal health services in underserved communities.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 1966
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants to expand and improve maternal health care services, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Mamas and Babies in Underserved Communities Act of 2025
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Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 317K of such Act (247b–12) the following:
to expand maternal health care services, including prenatal care, postnatal care for infants, and postpartum care for mothers;
to improve health outcomes for women and infants receiving such services; and
to reduce disparities in access to care, in the quality of services received, and in health outcomes for women and infants in need of such services.
In this section, the term eligible entity means a public or nonprofit private health care provider that serves one or more minority, low-income, or medically underserved communities.
primarily serve minority, low-income, or medically underserved communities;
are led by individuals who have lived, were educated, or currently reside in the communities served; and
are geographically located in the communities served.
As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall agree—
to provide the health care services supported through the grant in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner; and
to limit the percentage of grant funds used for administrative expenses to not more than 10 percent.
to maximize the coordination of activities funded through this section with other federally funded maternal health care activities; and
to minimize the duplication of such activities.
The terms postnatal and postpartum refer to the period of 12 months following an infant’s birth.
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.