[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4581 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4581

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four


                                 An Act


 
   To amend title V of the Social Security Act to support stillbirth 
            prevention and research, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth 
Prevention Act of 2024''.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION SUPPORTING PERMISSIBLE USE OF FUNDS FOR 
STILLBIRTH PREVENTION ACTIVITIES.
    Section 501(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701(a)) is 
amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting ``to reduce the incidence 
    of stillbirth,'' after ``among children,''; and
        (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ``follow-up services'' 
    the following: ``, and for evidence-based programs and activities 
    and outcome research to reduce the incidence of stillbirth 
    (including tracking and awareness of fetal movements, improvement 
    of birth timing for pregnancies with risk factors, initiatives that 
    encourage safe sleeping positions during pregnancy, screening and 
    surveillance for fetal growth restriction, efforts to achieve 
    smoking cessation during pregnancy, community-based programs that 
    provide home visits or other types of support, and any other 
    research or evidence-based programming to prevent stillbirths)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.