Public Law 118 - 69 - Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024

[118th Congress Public Law 69]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 118-69
118th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To amend title V of the Social Security Act to support stillbirth 
   prevention and research, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: July 12, 
                         2024 -  [H.R. 4581]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Maternal and 
Child Health Stillbirth Prevention 
Act of 2024.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 42 USC 1305 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth 
Prevention Act of 2024''.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION SUPPORTING PERMISSIBLE USE OF FUNDS FOR 
                    STILLBIRTH PREVENTION ACTIVITIES.

    Section 501(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ``to reduce the 
        incidence of stillbirth,'' after ``among children,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ``follow-up 
        services'' the following: ``, and for evidence-based programs 
        and activities and outcome research to reduce the incidence of 
        stillbirth (including tracking and awareness of fetal movements, 
        improvement of birth timing for pregnancies with risk factors, 
        initiatives that encourage safe sleeping positions during 
        pregnancy, screening and surveillance for fetal growth 
        restriction, efforts to achieve smoking cessation during 
        pregnancy, community-based programs that provide home visits or 
        other types of

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        support, and any other research or evidence-based programming to 
        prevent stillbirths)''.

    Approved July 12, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4581 (S. 2231):
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 118-490 (Comm. on Energy and Commerce).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            May 14, 15, considered and passed House.
            June 11, considered and passed Senate.

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