Maternal Vaccination Act
Sponsored By: Representative Sewell
Introduced
Summary
Expands maternal vaccination awareness and equity by adding pregnant and postpartum individuals to the federal vaccination awareness campaign and making them an explicit program objective. It also broadens messaging to obstetric care settings and updates the campaign's future funding authorization.
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- Pregnant and postpartum individuals and their children are now explicit targets for outreach. The program must aim to raise vaccination rates for these groups, including racial and ethnic minority individuals.
- Campaign messaging and activities now cover prenatal, obstetric, and pediatric settings to reach expectant and new parents.
- The authorization is changed to $17.0 million per year for fiscal years 2027–2031, replacing the prior $15.0 million annual authorization for 2021–2025 and leaving no explicit authorization for 2021–2026 in the amended text.
*Authorizes $17.0 million annually for 2027–2031, increasing the program's future authorized funding by $2.0 million per year compared with the prior authorization.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More vaccine outreach for pregnant people
If enacted, the bill would broaden the federal maternal vaccination awareness and equity campaign to explicitly include pregnant and postpartum individuals. The campaign would add "pregnant and postpartum individuals" to its listed activities and change listed care settings to "prenatal, obstetric, and pediatric." The bill would add an objective to increase vaccination rates of pregnant and postpartum people, including racial and ethnic minority groups, and their children. These changes would direct outreach and messaging toward pregnant and postpartum people and their children.
Higher funding for maternal vaccine campaign
If enacted, the bill would authorize $17 million per year for the maternal vaccination campaign for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. It would replace an earlier authorization of $15 million per year for fiscal years 2021 through 2025 and the amended text does not state an authorization for 2021–2026. The extra authorized money would be available to the campaign and the public health programs that run it.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sewell
AL • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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