Maternal Vaccination Act
Sponsored By: Representative Sewell
Introduced
Summary
Expand maternal vaccination outreach and equity. This bill would refocus the Maternal Vaccination Awareness and Equity Campaign to reach pregnant and postpartum individuals and their children, with extra emphasis on racial and ethnic minority groups.
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- Would explicitly add pregnant and postpartum individuals to the campaign’s target audience and make raising their vaccination rates a stated program goal.
- Would extend the campaign’s beneficiary group to include the children of pregnant and postpartum individuals, linking maternal outreach to pediatric vaccination efforts.
- Would add “obstetric” to the campaign’s outreach language so messaging and activities also target obstetric care settings and clinicians.
- Would specifically direct activity toward increasing vaccination among racial and ethnic minority groups.
- Would raise the campaign’s authorized funding from $15 million per year (previously set for 2021–2025) to $17 million per year for fiscal years 2027–2031.
*Would increase federal spending by about $2 million per year during fiscal years 2027–2031 for the campaign.*
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More vaccination help for pregnant people
If enacted, this bill would expand the Maternal Vaccination Awareness and Equity Campaign to explicitly include pregnant and postpartum people. It would add obstetric care settings to prenatal and pediatric outreach. The bill would add a new program goal to increase vaccination rates for pregnant and postpartum people, including racial and ethnic minority groups, and their children. It would authorize $17 million per year for the campaign for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031. Authorizing money would not itself appropriate funds.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sewell
AL • D
Cosponsors
Underwood
IL • D
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Adams
NC • D
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Barragan
CA • D
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Beatty
OH • D
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Bell
MO • D
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Brownley
CA • D
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Budzinski
IL • D
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Carson
IN • D
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Carter (LA)
LA • D
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Cherfilus-McCormick
FL • D
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Clarke (NY)
NY • D
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Cohen
TN • D
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Conaway
NJ • D
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Craig
MN • D
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Crockett
TX • D
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Davis (IL)
IL • D
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DelBene
WA • D
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Dingell
MI • D
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Figures
AL • D
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Garamendi
CA • D
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Garcia (IL)
IL • D
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Grijalva
AZ • D
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Hayes
CT • D
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Horsford
NV • D
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Ivey
MD • D
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Jackson (IL)
IL • D
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Jacobs
CA • D
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Johnson (GA)
GA • D
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Johnson (TX)
TX • D
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Kamlager-Dove
CA • D
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Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
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Latimer
NY • D
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McBath
GA • D
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McClellan
VA • D
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McGarvey
KY • D
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McGovern
MA • D
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McIver
NJ • D
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Menefee
TX • D
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Moore (WI)
WI • D
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Morelle
NY • D
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Moulton
MA • D
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Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
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Ocasio-Cortez
NY • D
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Pressley
MA • D
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Quigley
IL • D
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Salinas
OR • D
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Scholten
MI • D
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Scott (VA)
VA • D
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Smith (WA)
WA • D
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Soto
FL • D
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Stansbury
NM • D
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Strickland
WA • D
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Sykes
OH • D
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Takano
CA • D
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Tlaib
MI • D
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Veasey
TX • D
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Watson Coleman
NJ • D
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Williams (GA)
GA • D
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Wilson (FL)
FL • D
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Gottheimer
NJ • D
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Meng
NY • D
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