S.Amdt. 2805

SA 2805. Ms. BUTLER (for herself and Mrs. Britt) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle H of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 10__. IMPROVE INITIATIVE.

Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 284 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:

``SEC. 409K. IMPROVE INITIATIVE.

``(a) In General.--The Director of the National Institutes
of Health, in consultation with the Director the Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, shall establish a program to be known as the
Implementing a

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Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone
Initiative (referred to in this section as the `Initiative').
``(b) Duties.--The Initiative shall--
``(1) advance research to--
``(A) reduce preventable causes of maternal mortality and
severe maternal morbidity;
``(B) reduce racial, ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic
disparities in maternal health outcomes; and
``(C) improve health for pregnant and postpartum women
before, during, and after pregnancy;
``(2) use an integrated approach to understand the
biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and structural factors
that affect maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity
by building an evidence base for improved outcomes in
specific regions of the United States; and
``(3) target health disparities associated with maternal
mortality and severe maternal morbidity by--
``(A) implementing and evaluating community-based
interventions for disproportionately affected women; and
``(B) identifying risk factors and the underlying
biological mechanisms associated with leading causes of
maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the
United States.
``(c) Implementation.--The Director of the Institute may
award grants or enter into contracts, cooperative agreements,
or other transactions to carry out subsection (a), including
with researchers from racial and ethnic minority groups (as
defined in section 1707(g)(1)).
``(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated to carry out this section $53,400,000 for
each of fiscal years 2025 through 2031.''.
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