Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 Public Law 118–69 Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 69 118–69 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20240419 2024-07-26 Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 17673 118 2024-07-12 Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 [(Public Law 118–69)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 118–69. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo amend title V of the Social Security Act to support stillbirth prevention and research, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. [42 U.S.C. 1305 note] SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024”.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION SUPPORTING PERMISSIBLE USE OF FUNDS FOR STILLBIRTH PREVENTION ACTIVITIES. Section 501(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701(a)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting “to reduce the incidence of stillbirth,” after “among children,”; and (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after “follow-up services” the following: “, and for evidence-based programs and activities and outcome research to reduce the incidence of stillbirth (including tracking and awareness of fetal movements, improvement of birth timing for pregnancies with risk factors, initiatives that encourage safe sleeping positions during pregnancy, screening and surveillance for fetal growth restriction, efforts to achieve smoking cessation during pregnancy, community-based programs that provide home visits or other types of 138 STAT. 1486 support, and any other research or evidence-based programming to prevent stillbirths)”.