YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityUp to $100 million a year for local groups working to prevent pregnancy-related deaths, plus a new federal task force.
Transparency & Accountability
A new federal task force would post its first report online within two years, then every year. It would list what each agency did and how much money it thinks is needed.
Each group that gets a grant would post a yearly report on its work. The results would be split by race, gender, language, place, and income.
More about this bill
If you are pregnant or just had a baby, this bill targets everyday problems that can put your health at risk. Think housing, rides to the doctor, food, and clean air and water. It would allow up to $100 million a year in grants from 2027 through 2031. The money would go to local groups, tribes, and health departments that work with them. They could spend it on housing, transportation, food, jobs, pollution, or partner violence. Poor areas where many mothers die or are badly harmed would get first priority. Each group would post a yearly public report on its results. The bill would also have the Health and Human Services Secretary set up a task force on deaths and serious harm tied to pregnancy. Leaders of 17 federal offices would sit on it. They include the heads of housing, transportation, farm, labor, and environmental agencies. The Secretary could add patients, families of mothers who died, community and tribal health leaders, and birth care workers. Within two years, the task force would post its first public report. It would then report every year. The bill sets no end date for the task force.
Congressional Summary
Social Determinants for Moms Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a task force and a grant program to address social determinants of maternal health, such as housing, transportation, and nutrition. The task force, composed of federal and nonfederal stakeholders, must develop strategies and coordinate efforts to eliminate preventable maternal mortality, severe maternal morbidity, and maternal health disparities. Additionally, HHS must award grants to community-based organizations, nonprofits, tribal organizations, public health departments, or consortia of these entities to address social determinants of maternal health and eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-03-19
- Date Added
- 2026-10-03
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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