S. 1969: Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act
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S. 1969: Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act
112th Congress · introduced 2011-12-08 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-12-08 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act
Plain summary
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a maternity care quality measurement program with respect to childbearing women and newborns for voluntary use by: (1) a state in administering a state plan under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) or a state child health plan under SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP), (2) health insurance issuers and managed care entities contracting with states to administer such plans, and (3) item and service providers (including accountable care organizations). Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to support: (1) the development of new state and regional maternity care quality collaboratives, (2) expanded activities of existing maternity care quality collaboratives, and (3) maternity care initiatives within established state and regional quality collaboratives that are not focused exclusively on maternity care. Requires the Secretary to establish a maternity care home demonstration program.
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Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s1969.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s1969 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112