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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the designation of maternity care health professional shortage areas.

Introduced: April 3, 2014 See on congress.gov
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Apr 4, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 3, 2014
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 3, 2014
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate maternity care health professional shortage areas and review such designations at least annually.

Requires the Secretary to collect and publish data on health care professional shortage areas based on professional category of maternal health professionals providing full scope maternity health care by provider type as well as geographic region.

Includes, in the criteria for designation of health professional shortage areas, consideration of health professionals other than physicians who provide full scope maternity care and are eligible for National Health Service Corps loan repayment.

Defines "maternity care health professional shortage area" to mean: (1) an area determined to have a shortage of providers of full scope maternity care health services or of hospital or birth center labor and delivery units, or (2) a population group determined to have a shortage of such providers or facilities.

Defines "full scope maternity care health services" to include care during labor, birthing, prenatal care, and postpartum care.

What's happening now April 4, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 20
All 20 Democratic 9 Republican 1
R
Calvert, Ken
California · Aug 1, 2014
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Aug 1, 2014
 D
DelBene, Suzan K.
Washington · Jul 31, 2014
Jenkins, Lynn
· Jul 30, 2014
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Jul 24, 2014
Miller, Candice
· Jul 23, 2014
Dent, Charles
· Jul 22, 2014
Herrera Beutler, Jaime
· Jul 22, 2014
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jul 15, 2014
 D
Quigley, Mike
Illinois · Jul 9, 2014
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Jun 25, 2014
ENGEL, ELIOT
· Jun 23, 2014
 D
Takano, Mark
California · Jun 19, 2014
 D
Tonko, Paul
New York · Jun 9, 2014
Meehan, Patrick
· May 29, 2014
 D
Duckworth, Tammy
Illinois · May 9, 2014
Loebsack, David
· May 9, 2014
Polis, Jared
· May 9, 2014
Roe, David
· Apr 29, 2014
CAPPS, LOIS
· Apr 3, 2014
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4385: To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the designation of maternity care health professional shortage areas.. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4385/
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H.R. 4385, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-4385/.
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