Congresswoman Schrier ... reintroduced the bipartisan Rural Maternity Options for Medical Support (Rural MOMS) Act, which would strengthen maternal healthcare access in rural areas to improve the availability of labor and delivery services.
Support maternal healthcare access in rural communities.
Occurrences
reintroduced the bipartisan Rural Maternity Options for Medical Support (MOMS) Act, which would strengthen maternal healthcare access in rural areas to improve the availability of labor and delivery services.
Evidence
Roll Call 549 on H.R. 2617 was marked Passed; Schrier, Democratic, Washington, voted Yea.
The law amended maternal mental health and substance-use-disorder grant priorities to include entities operating in health professional shortage areas, including maternity care health professional target areas.
Section 2222 supports community health workers providing education and outreach on maternal health, prenatal, and postpartum care, and gives award preference for rural or traditionally underserved populations.
Roll Call 49 on H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, was marked Passed; Schrier, Democratic, Washington, voted Yea.
Section 9812 created an option for states to keep eligible pregnant individuals enrolled for full medical assistance through the 12-month postpartum period instead of ending after 60 days.
Assessments
Schrier was serving in the U.S. House when she voted for enacted federal legislation that materially advanced the promised outcome. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 included maternal, prenatal, postpartum, and maternal mental health access provisions with explicit preferences or priorities for rural, underserved, or maternity-care shortage areas. ARPA also expanded postpartum Medicaid access, though not rural-specific. Because the core rural maternal-health access promise was supported through enacted legislation during her House service, this counts as delivered in the same term context.