3.0.0 2239 2025-12-05T23:59:56Z 2025-12-05T23:59:56Z Senate S S 2023-07-11 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2239 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-07-11T18:57:33Z 118 3305 HR 2023-05-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 118 3310 HR 2023-05-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Related bill CRS 118 1606 S 2023-05-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2023-07-11 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2023-07-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000790 Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA] Raphael Warnock D GA N P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2023-07-11 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2023-07-11 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2023-07-11 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2023-07-11 True M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2023-10-16 False Health Health 2023-08-07T22:45:22Z

00 2023-07-11 Introduced in Senate 2024-01-30T15:17:08Z <p><b>Kira Johnson Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes various grants for establishing or expanding programs to advance maternal health equity.</p> <p>Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award grants for </p> <ul> <li>community-based programs to improve maternal health outcomes for demographic groups with elevated rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, maternal health disparities, and other adverse outcomes;</li> <li>training for health care providers and others who work in maternity care settings on reducing and preventing racism, bias, and discrimination; and</li> <li>programs in hospitals, health systems, and other maternity care settings to establish processes to identify and address instances of racism or evidence of bias in maternity care (i.e., respectful maternity care compliance programs).</li> </ul> <p>HHS must contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study issues related to the training programs, and the Government Accountability Office must study issues related to the respectful maternity care compliance programs.</p>

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