# 114-hr-6280: Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Act

114-hr-6280, Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-25] (D-CA); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-6280
- Congress: 114
- Title: Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
- Introduced: 2016-09-28
- Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-25] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Social Welfare
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Ensuring Healthy Beginnings Act This bill amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services, in awarding grants for maternal, infant, and early childhood home visitation programs, to give priority to applications submitted by certain governmental entities that are working in partnership with qualified community partners. A "qualified community partner" is a local educational agency, elementary or secondary school, a law enforcement agency, or a health care entity that provides specified services and assistance to pregnant women, infants, and young children.

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## Sources
- [114-hr-6280 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6280)

## Related
- [114-hr-6382: No Religious Registry Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6382)
- [114-hr-6340: Presidential Accountability Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6340)
- [114-hr-6323: To name the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in Long Beach, Ca…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6323)
- [114-hr-6149: POWER Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6149)
- [114-hr-6138: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 560 Ea…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6138)
- [114-hr-6026: To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require each candidate for nom…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6280 (as of 2025-11-18).