Pub. L. 118-69 - Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024

118th Congress

Affects: 42 U.S.C. §§ 701

SECTION 1. 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)”.

Legislative History

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4581 (S. 2231):

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):

May 14, 15, considered and passed House.

June 11, considered and passed Senate.