State
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Bill
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Summary
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Arkansas |
HB 1440 |
Establishes a maternal mortality review committee. |
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HB 1441 |
Establishes a maternal and perinatal outcomes quality review committee. |
Arizona
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SB 1040
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Establishes an advisory committee on maternal fatalities and morbidity to recommend improvements to information collection concerning the incidence and causes of maternal fatalities and morbidity.
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California
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SB 464
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Identifies implicit bias as a key cause of racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. Requires hospitals, birth centers and clinics that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all providers involved in perinatal care. Requires health care providers to complete initial basic training through the program and a refresher course every two years thereafter, or on a more frequent basis if deemed necessary by the facility. Requires the facility to provide a certificate of training completion upon request, to accept certificates of completion from other facilities, and to offer training to physicians not directly employed by the facility.
Requires the state Department of Public Health to track and publish data on pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity.
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Colorado
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HB 1122
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Establishes a maternal mortality review committee to identify the causes of maternal mortality and develop recommendations to address preventable maternal deaths, including legislation, policies, rules and best practices.
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District of Columbia |
B 468 / B 469 |
Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to investigate all maternal mortalities occurring in the District of Columbia. |
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R 484 |
Declares an emergency and the need to require the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to investigate all maternal mortalities occurring in the District of Columbia. |
Delaware
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HCR 29
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Recognizes April 11-17, 2019, as Black Maternal Health Awareness Week.
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Georgia
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HR 89
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Creates the House Study Committee on Maternal Mortality; requires committee membership include a certain number of African American female legislators
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Idaho
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HB 109
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Establishes a maternal mortality review committee to investigate causes and factors associated with deaths relating to pregnancy or childbirth.
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Illinois |
HB 1 |
Creates the Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans; stipulates membership requirements and requires an annual report with recommendations. Requires the Department of Public Health to provide technical support and assistance. |
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HB 3 |
Requires the Department of Public Health to collect information regarding preterm birth, infant mortality, and maternal mortality and to use it to illustrate the disparity of those occurrences across different racial and ethnic groups; removes a provision that requires hospitals to report such disparities. |
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HB 2895 |
Requires the Department of Public Health to ensure that all birthing facilities conduct annual continuing education for providers and staff of obstetric medicine, within emergency departments and other staff that may care for pregnant or postpartum women. Requires the continuing education to include yearly educational modules on management of severe maternal hypertension and obstetric hemorrhage. |
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SR 63 |
Urges the General Assembly to continue to investigate and identify areas in which the state can improve the prevention of maternal mortality especially among vulnerable populations. |
Indiana |
SB 278 |
Establishes local fetal infant mortality review teams to identify similarities, trends and factual patterns concerning fetal deaths and infant deaths within an area of the state. Requires teams to be multidisciplinary and culturally diverse. Requires the employment of a statewide fetal infant mortality review coordinator to assist local teams. |
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HB 1007 |
Requires the state Department of Health to establish a perinatal navigator program. Requires health care providers to use a validated and evidence-based verbal screening tool to assess substance use disorder in pregnant women. Requires health care providers who identify pregnant women with substance use disorders, and who are not currently receiving treatment, to provide treatment or refer patients to treatment. |
Louisiana
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HR 294 / SR 240
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Requests the Department of Health take immediate action to address racial disparities in maternal and child health outcomes and the alarming rate of mortality for African American infants and mothers in Louisiana.
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Maryland |
HB 583 |
Requires the Maternal Mortality Review Program, in consultation with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, to make recommendations to reduce any disparities in the maternal mortality rate. |
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HB 796 |
Requires the secretary of health to provide copies of certain death certificates to the Maternal Mortality Review Program. Provides that certain proceedings, records and files are not subject to subpoena, discovery or introduction into evidence. |
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SB 356 |
Requires the secretary of health to report annually on findings from the Maternal Mortality Review Program and racial disparities in maternal mortality rates. |
Michigan
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SR 33
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Commemorates April 11-17, 2019, as Black Maternal Health Week.
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Missouri
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SB 514
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Establishes a Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board, stipulates membership and responsibilities; requires an annual report to the legislature with findings on state data and recommendations.
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New Hampshire
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SB 118
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Establishes a Standing Child Fatality Review Committee to conduct comprehensive, multidisciplinary reviews of preventable infant, child and youth deaths so as to identify factors associated with the deaths and make recommendations for system changes to improve services for infants, children, and youth.
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New Jersey |
AB 1862 |
Establishes the Maternal Mortality Review Commission to annually review and report on rates and causes of maternal death and to recommend improvements in maternal care. |
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AR 113 |
Urges enactment of federal Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2017. |
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AR 219 / SR 121 |
Encourages Department of Health to develop set of standards for respectful care at birth and to conduct a public outreach initiative. |
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AR 226 / SR 126 |
Urges Centers for Disease Control to adopt uniform data system to collect information on maternal mortality. |
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SB 1870
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Requires the Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board to study racial and ethnic disparities that contribute to infant mortality; addresses disparities in breastfeeding initiation and duration to increase supports among racial and ethnic populations.
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New Mexico
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SB 215
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Establishes the Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity Review Committee. Stipulates membership and responsibilities including recommendations to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
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Nevada
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AB 169
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Establishes the Maternal Mortality Review Committee. Stipulates membership and responsibilities including a biennial report with findings and recommendations.
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New York |
AB 3276 |
Establishes a statewide maternal mortality review board. Stipulates responsibilities including a biennial report with recommendations to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity and issues of racial, economic or other disparities in maternal outcomes. Establishes a Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Advisory Council to review findings of the state and local maternal mortality review boards, hold public hearings and issue an annual report with recommendations. |
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SB 6529 |
Specifies the makeup and structure of the State Maternal Mortality Review Board. |
Oklahoma
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HB 2334
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Establishes the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; specifies the committee’s duties and structure. Requires the committee to review cases of pregnancy-related deaths and make recommendations to the state commissioner of health.
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Pennsylvania |
HR 324 |
Designates the month of May 2019 as Healthy Babies Month. |
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HR 239 |
Recognizes the month of May 2019 as Preeclampsia Awareness Month. |
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HR 27 / SR 7 |
Designates Jan. 23, 2019, as Maternal Health Awareness Day. |
Rhode Island |
HB 5543 / SB 574 |
Establishes the Multidisciplinary Maternal Mortality Review Committee; specifies committee’s membership and duties, including examining emerging trends in pregnancy-related deaths, identifying potential demographic, geographic, and structural points for prevention and other factors. Requires a report with findings and recommendations. |
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HB 5929 |
Celebrates the week of March 22-28, 2019, as World Doula Week. |
South Carolina |
SB 21 |
Amends duties of the Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review Committee; assigns information collecting responsibilities to Department of Health and Environmental Control staff to provide to the committee; requires other agencies to provide necessary data to the committee. |
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SB 767 |
Welcomes the March of Dimes to the State House and recognizes May 1, 2019, as Healthy Mother’s Day. |
Tennessee
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HB 1388
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Adds neonatal care as a component of the Department of Health's plan for perinatal care; requires annual reporting to the legislature on the quality and outcomes of perinatal care provided through the state’s Medicaid program.
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Texas |
SB 750 |
Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to evaluate and enhance the quality of maternal health care services, including prenatal, postpartum and maternal mental health. Requires the state to seek federal funding to implement a model of care for Medicaid recipients in the prenatal and postpartum periods. |
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HB 25 |
Requires the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force to establish a pilot program for providing medical transportation program services to pregnant women and new mothers. |
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SB 2132 |
Requires the commission that operates Healthy Texas Women programs to consult with the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force to improve the process for providing information. |
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SB 748 |
Requires an annual report on state actions taken to address maternal mortality rates. Creates a program to deliver prenatal and postpartum care through telehealth or telemedicine services in certain counties. Requires the implementation of a high-risk maternal care coordination services pilot program. Establishes an account fund newborn screening. |
Virginia
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HB 2546
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Establishes a Maternal Mortality Review Team; specifies membership and duties.
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Washington
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SB 5425
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Expands membership requirements of the Maternal Mortality Review Panel; establishes requirements for data sharing related to maternal mortality between the Department of Health and other entities.
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West Virginia
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SB 564
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Extends Medicaid coverage to mothers and their newborn infants to 185% of the federal poverty level.
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