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Maternal Vaccination Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to maternal vaccination awareness and equity, and for other purposes.

Introduced Mar 27, 2026

Latest action (Mar 27, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Health
Issues
Healthcare

Summary

The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the maternal vaccination awareness and equity campaign to specifically include pregnant and postpartum individuals. It increases the focus on obstetric care in the campaign and raises funding from $15 million to $17 million annually for fiscal years 2027 through 2031. The bill adds specific goals to increase vaccination rates among pregnant and postpartum individuals, including those from racial and ethnic minority groups, and their children.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
66 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Terri A. Sewell’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $16,100
  • GRAIL $15,700
  • CHARTER BROKERAGE LLC $10,850
  • ROCKY RESEARCH $9,900
  • CHARTER BROKERAGE $8,800

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Terri A. Sewell → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 27, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Mar 27, 2026 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 4132 — Maternal Vaccinations Act · Introduced Mar 18, 2026 · Cong. 119 91%
  • HR 8024 — Maternal Vaccination Act · Introduced Mar 19, 2026 · Cong. 119 90%
  • HR 8425 — Strengthening the Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2026 · Introduced Apr 21, 2026 · Cong. 119 81%
  • HR 6561 — PREVENT HPV Cancers Act of 2025 · Introduced Dec 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 8008 — Social Determinants for Moms Act · Introduced Mar 19, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 9420 — Reproductive Health Care Training Act of 2026 · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 27, 2026

Ms. Sewell (for herself, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bell, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Carson, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Conaway, Ms. Craig, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Figures, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mrs. Grijalva, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Latimer, Mrs. McBath, Ms. McClellan, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Menefee, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Scholten, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Soto, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Strickland, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Takano, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Veasey, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Gottheimer, and Ms. Meng) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to maternal vaccination awareness and equity, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Maternal Vaccination Act”.

SEC. 2. MATERNAL VACCINATION AWARENESS AND EQUITY CAMPAIGN.

(a) Campaign.—Section 313 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 245) is amended—

(1) in subsection (a), by inserting “and among pregnant and postpartum individuals,” after “low rates of vaccination,”;

(2) in subsection (c)(3), by striking “prenatal and pediatric” and inserting “prenatal, obstetric, and pediatric”;

(3) in subsection (d)(4)(B), by inserting “pregnant and postpartum individuals and” after “including”; and

(4) in subsection (g), by striking “$15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025” and inserting “$17,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2031”.

(b) Additional Activities.—Section 317(k)(1)(E) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b(k)(1)(E)) is amended—

(1) in clause (v), by striking “and” at the end; and

(2) by adding at the end the following:

“(vii) increase vaccination rates of pregnant and postpartum individuals, including individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups, and their children; and”. <all>

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