relative to access to rural maternal health care and directing the department of health and human services to develop a rural maternal health care delivery pilot program.

Summary

The bill would have the Department of Health and Human Services set up a pilot maternity‑home program to give prenatal and postnatal care to pregnant people living in rural areas with little or no obstetric services. It also creates a Maternity Care Improvement Commission to study and recommend ways to strengthen maternal health statewide. The measure was declared “inexpedient to legislate” and did not pass.

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