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Pregnant and Postpartum Women Treatment Reauthorization Act
To reauthorize the program to support residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill reauthorizes and expands the federal program supporting residential treatment for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders. It increases annual funding from $29.9 million to $38.9 million for fiscal years 2025 through 2029. The bill requires treatment programs to submit a plan describing their services and allows them to include strategies for targeting outreach to women disproportionately affected by maternal substance use disorder.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] (D-NM)
4 cosponsors
- Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] (R-WV)
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] (D-MN)
- Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] (R-SC)
- Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] (R-NC)
Actions (2)
- Mar 12, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- Mar 12, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 12, 2025
Mr. Lujan (for himself, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Capito, and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To reauthorize the program to support residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women, 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 “Pregnant and Postpartum Women Treatment Reauthorization Act”.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.
Section 508 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb-1) is amended—
(1) in subsection (d)(11)(C), by striking “providing health services” and inserting “providing health care services”;
(2) in subsection (g)—
(A) by inserting “a plan describing” after “will provide”; and
(B) by adding at the end the following: “Such plan may include a description of how such applicant will target outreach to women disproportionately impacted by maternal substance use disorder.”; and
(3) in subsection (s), by striking “$29,931,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023” and inserting “$38,931,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029”. <all>
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