State Offices of Women’s Health Support and Expansion Act
Sponsored By: Representative Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2]
Introduced
Summary
Establish State offices of women’s health. This bill would create a federal grant program to help States set up and run offices focused on prevention, maternal and reproductive health, chronic disease, and reducing disparities.
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- Families and women: State offices would fund public education on preventive care, early detection, chronic disease management, reproductive and maternal health, and help tackle social determinants like housing instability, transportation, and food insecurity.
- States and health agencies: Each eligible State could receive grants to establish or maintain an office; funding is split 50% equally among States and 50% by a formula using female population, maternal mortality, female poverty, and rural population.
- Providers, researchers, and communities: Offices must collect and share de-identified, aggregated data, act as a public clearinghouse for best practices, and convene annual stakeholder panels with providers, federally qualified health centers, Title X centers, researchers, Medicaid officials, and community groups.
- Reproductive health and privacy protections: Grant funds cannot be used to discourage or misrepresent reproductive health services, and collected data are barred from civil or criminal use and must be de-identified.
*If enacted and funded, the bill authorizes $55.0 million per year for FY2027–2031 to support these grants, increasing federal outlays by that amount when appropriated.*
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Stronger privacy for women's health data
This bill would ban State women's health office data from being used with outside websites or apps that store data on external servers. It would bar using that data in any civil or criminal case, investigation, or proceeding. The bill would also prohibit disclosing, selling, or sharing the data in any way that identifies a person or their health provider. These rules are meant to protect individuals who share health information with State offices.
Grants to create state women's health offices
This bill would fund grants so each eligible State could set up or maintain a State office of women’s health. It would authorize $55 million per year for FY2027 through FY2031. Each year half the money would be split equally among eligible States and half would be given by a needs formula using women population, maternal death rates, women’s poverty, and rural share. States would need to apply, hold an annual community advisory panel, and report annually on priorities and aggregate, anonymized results. Grant funds could be used for education, data, coordination, outreach, and social determinants work but not to discourage or misrepresent reproductive health services.
State use of Medicaid health data
If enacted, State health offices could make secure agreements with State Medicaid agencies to share high-level, de-identified, aggregated Medicaid data. The data must meet HIPAA de-identification rules in 45 C.F.R. 164.514 and be aggregated to prevent re-identification. States would use this data only for public-health planning, such as finding gaps in women's Medicaid services and designing 1115 waiver or State plan proposals to improve outcomes.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2]
LA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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