Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act
Sponsored By: Representative Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
Introduced
Summary
No-cost sharing for maternity and newborn care is the core aim of this bill. It would require comprehensive prenatal, labor and delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum services to be covered with no copays or deductibles across ACA, ERISA, and tax-code governed plans.
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- Families and new parents would receive covered services such as ultrasounds, miscarriage care, delivery services (including anesthesiology and fetal monitoring), specialist consultations, and postpartum health care with no cost-sharing.
- The bill defines "postpartum" as the 1-year period after a pregnancy ends and requires behavioral health services for that period, including care for legal parents who did not give birth.
- Health plans and insurers would be required to follow the same no-cost-sharing rule because the bill adds parallel provisions to the Affordable Care Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Internal Revenue Code for plan years beginning on or after enactment.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
No copays for maternity and newborn care
If enacted, your group or individual health plan would have to cover prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care with no cost-sharing. You would not pay deductibles, copays, or coinsurance for these services. The rule would apply to employer plans and other group and individual policies, through changes to ERISA, the tax code, and the Public Health Service Act. It would take effect for plan years that start on or after the date of enactment. Plans would still need to cover the services to the same extent required for marketplace plans.
One-year postpartum and expanded benefits
The bill would expand what counts as essential maternity and newborn benefits. Plans that must follow Affordable Care Act essential benefits rules would need to cover prenatal, labor and delivery, neonatal, perinatal, and postpartum care and screenings. At a minimum, this would include ultrasounds, miscarriage care, delivery services (anesthesia, fetal monitoring, specialist consults), and postpartum care. Postpartum would mean the 1-year period after a pregnancy ends, including behavioral health for pregnancy-related conditions and for legal parents who did not give birth. These coverage rules would apply to plan years starting on or after enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
ME • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-40]
CA • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
McClellan
VA • D
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
CA • R
Sponsored 6/5/2025
Budzinski
IL • D
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Davis (NC)
NC • D
Sponsored 7/2/2025
Rep. Sykes, Emilia Strong [D-OH-13]
OH • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
CA • D
Sponsored 7/14/2025
Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
NY • D
Sponsored 8/15/2025
Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
OH • D
Sponsored 3/12/2026
Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7]
PA • R
Sponsored 3/16/2026
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 3/16/2026
Wittman
VA • R
Sponsored 3/16/2026
Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36]
CA • D
Sponsored 3/18/2026
DelBene
WA • D
Sponsored 3/18/2026
Adams
NC • D
Sponsored 3/24/2026
Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-RI-2]
RI • D
Sponsored 3/24/2026
Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
CA • D
Sponsored 3/24/2026
Rep. Balint, Becca [D-VT-At Large]
VT • D
Sponsored 3/24/2026
Schrier
WA • D
Sponsored 3/27/2026
Rep. Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA-11]
VA • D
Sponsored 3/30/2026
Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]
MI • D
Sponsored 4/9/2026
Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
NH • D
Sponsored 4/9/2026
Thompson (CA)
CA • D
Sponsored 4/13/2026
Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
WI • D
Sponsored 4/13/2026
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 4/16/2026
Mullin
CA • D
Sponsored 4/16/2026
Casten
IL • D
Sponsored 4/28/2026
Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
NJ • D
Sponsored 4/28/2026
Roll Call Votes
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