House Passes Amended Maternal Health Broadband Data Bill
The House passed an amended version of the Data Mapping to Save Moms’ Lives Act (S-198) Tuesday 380-46 as part of an en bloc package. The measure and previous House-passed companion HR-1218 (see 2204050066) would require the FCC to include…
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data on certain maternal health outcomes in its broadband health mapping tool. The Senate passed S-198 in March (see 2203030037). The U.S. “has the highest rate of maternal mortality among the developed nations -- a sad and inexcusable reality,” said House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Communications Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle, D-Pa., after the vote. “That’s why today the House continued its work to address this crisis by passing” S-198 “to integrate maternal health data, including mortality and severe morbidity, into” the FCC’s “health mapping platform.” The measure “will help us better understand the telehealth and telecommunications barriers too many women face so that we can adopt informed, robust connectivity policies that keep Americans safe and healthy,” the Democratic lawmakers said.