S. 1481: Healthy MOM Act
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S. 1481: Healthy MOM Act
116th Congress · introduced 2019-05-15 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2019-05-15 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Healthy MOM Act
Plain summary
Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act or the Healthy MOM Act This bill expands health insurance coverage availability for pregnant individuals. It requires health insurers, health insurance exchanges, and group health plans to offer a special enrollment period to pregnant individuals. The special enrollment period offered by an insurer or exchange must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the insurer or exchange. The special enrollment period offered by a group health plan must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the plan or is confirmed by a health care provider. The bill also makes pregnancy a qualifying life event for the purpose of enrolling in a federal employee health benefit plan. Additionally, a group health plan or health insurer that covers dependents must provide coverage for maternity care to all covered individuals. Any individual who is eligible for Medicaid and is, or becomes, pregnant maintains such eligibility for one year after the end of the pregnancy. The bill revises the range in which a state must establish a maximum level of family income for pregnant women and infants to be eligible for Medicaid. The upper limit of the range is eliminated and the lower limit is set to the level in place on January 1, 2014.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · 24 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Tina Smith (D-MN), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116s1481.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/s>
Record fed-us-cong116-s1481 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116