S380Referred to Committee

Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act

Introduced

In Committee

Passed One Chamber

Passed Both

Signed into Law

119th

Congress

2025-02-04

Introduced

Cosponsors

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Type

Sponsor

Margaret Wood Hassan

Democrat · NH · Senator

Votes with party: 74.2% (853 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (7)

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Latest Action

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Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

2026-07-22

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Committee Activity

Currently in

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsMarkup By · 2026-07-22

Previously

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsHearings By (full committee) · 2026-03-19
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsReferred To · 2025-02-04

Plain-English Summary

Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act This bill creates and expands federal grant programs within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase capacity to provide emergency obstetric health services in rural areas or areas without practitioners or facilities specializing in obstetric services. Specifically, HRSA must establish a program for providing grants to certain hospitals or consortiums that include hospitals in rural areas or areas with maternal health care professional shortages for training, developing a workforce, and purchasing equipment relating to obstetric emergencies. In addition, the bill requires HRSA’s Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Capacity program to provide grants for training on emergency obstetric services for practitioners in rural health care facilities without dedicated obstetric units. HRSA must also establish a pilot program to provide grants to government entities for developing or improving telehealth access programs to support urgent maternal health care in rural facilities without a dedicated obstetric unit.

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