# 119-s-1834: Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act

119-s-1834, Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] (R-MS); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1834
- Congress: 119
- Title: Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-21
- Sponsor: Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] (R-MS)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Would ban patient cost-sharing for prenatal, delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and add a new Maternity and Newborn Care category to essential health benefits.** It would require plans to cover a defined set of services from ultrasounds and miscarriage care to delivery services and one year of postpartum behavioral health. - Families and infants: Pregnant people and new families would face no out-of-pocket costs for prenatal visits, ultrasounds, miscarriage care, labor and delivery services, neonatal care, and postpartum medical services. Postpartum care is defined to cover the 1-year period after the pregnancy ends. - Non-birthing legal parents: Legal parents who do not physically give birth would get behavioral health services related to new parenthood for the 1-year period after birth. - Health plans and employers: The bill would require ACA marketplace plans, ERISA (the federal law for employer benefit plans) plans, and plans governed by the tax code to add the new maternity and newborn benefits and to impose no cost-sharing for those services for plan years beginning on or after enactment.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] (D-VA), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO] (R-MO), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] (D-NY), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- No-cost maternity and newborn care: benefit, high. If enacted, this would add a Maternity and Newborn Care benefit to the ACA essential health benefits. Plans would have to cover prenatal care, delivery, newborn care, and one year of postpartum care. Required services would include ultrasounds, miscarriage care, delivery services (including anesthe…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-s-2465: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026
- 119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- 119-s-1816: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025
- 119-s-1032: Major Richard Star Act
- 119-s-1547: America the Beautiful Act

## Sources
- [119-s-1834 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1834)

## Related
- [119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4744)
- [119-s-2465: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriati…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2465)
- [119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-237)
- [119-s-1816: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1816)
- [119-s-1032: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1032)
- [119-s-1547: America the Beautiful Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1547)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1834 (as of 2025-12-21).