A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for State-based maternal mortality review committees, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to disseminate best practices on maternal mortality prevention to hospitals, State-based professional societies, and perinatal quality collaboratives, and for other purposes.

• Families and pregnant people: Hospitals and perinatal quality collaboratives would get annual CDC guidance on preventing maternal mortality and morbidity, which aims to speed adoption of proven practices.
• Clinicians and hospitals: Obstetricians and gynecologists are explicitly added to the list of clinical specialists for maternal mortality review activities, and hospitals would be primary recipients of the best-practice guidance.
• State review committees and data systems: The bill would require coordination with death certifiers to improve cause-of-death information and allow amendments to death certificates when appropriate. It also raises authorized funding to support these activities.

*This bill would authorize $100 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, increasing the program's annual authorized funding compared with prior levels.*