Opportunities to Support Mothers and Deliver Children Act

This bill adds a new grant program to the Health Profession Opportunity Grant Program in the Social Security Act. The federal health secretary, working with the Secretaries of Labor and Education, would give grants to groups such as workforce boards, state and tribal governments, colleges, hospitals, health centers, and nonprofits to train people to work as doulas, midwives, or in other pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum jobs. Trainees must have incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level, and projects must run at least 3 years in states that recognize and pay for doula or midwife services. The bill requires evaluations of the projects and provides $10 million for fiscal year 2026.

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Sponsors

• Gwen Moore Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors