Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) led the introduction of the Tech to Save Moms Act, bipartisan legislation to support the use of technology to help close the gap in maternal health care and address the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality outcomes.
Support legislation to expand telehealth, remote patient monitoring, provider training, digital tools, and research to improve maternal health outcomes.
Occurrences
H.R. 8317 (IH) - Tech to Save Moms Act
Evidence
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The office announced that Williams led introduction of the Tech to Save Moms Act, describing it as legislation to support technology that closes maternal health care gaps and specifically noting it would expand remote patient monitoring and promote virtual training and capacity-building models.
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GovInfo lists H.R. 8317 as introduced in the House on April 15, 2026 and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The bill title is Tech to Save Moms Act; the full title states it would authorize grants to expand technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity-building models to improve maternal health outcomes.
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GovInfo full bill text shows Ms. Williams of Georgia introduced H.R. 8317 on April 15, 2026. The bill would add integrated telehealth models for maternity care, authorize grants for technology-enabled collaborative learning and provider training, require use of remote patient monitoring tools, create grants for digital tools such as early warning systems and clinical decision support, and require a National Academies study on technology and patient monitoring devices in maternity care.
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LegiScan's bill page, sourcing Congress.gov links, lists H.R. 8317 as sponsored by Rep. Nikema Williams, with status 'Introduced on April 15 2026' and action '2026-04-15 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.' It also lists the bill as pending in the House Energy and Commerce Committee and identifies the latest bill text as the introduced version.
Assessments
The promise was framed as supporting legislation, not securing enactment. During her current federal House term, Williams sponsored and introduced H.R. 8317, the Tech to Save Moms Act, which directly covers telehealth-integrated maternity care, remote patient monitoring, provider training and capacity-building, digital clinical tools, and maternal health research. The bill remained referred to committee rather than enacted, but introducing and sponsoring directly aligned legislation fulfills a support-legislation promise in the same term.
Williams materially fulfilled the promise as phrased by leading introduction of the Tech to Save Moms Act during her current House term. The bill directly matches the commitment by addressing maternal health through technology-enabled models including remote patient monitoring, virtual training, capacity-building, and digital tools. The measure had not been enacted in the evidence window, so the real-world policy expansion was not completed, but the promise was to support legislation rather than secure passage.