I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 517 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to furnish tailored 
information to expecting mothers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2023 
Ms. MACE (for herself, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. FALLON, Mr. 
LAMBORN, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, and Ms. FOXX) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to furnish tailored information to expecting mothers, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Standing with Moms 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AWARENESS FOR EXPECTING MOTHERS. 
The Public Health Service Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
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‘‘TITLE XXXIV—AWARENESS FOR 
EXPECTING MOTHERS 
‘‘SEC. 3401. WEBSITE AND PORTAL. 
‘‘(a) WEBSITE.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish 
a user-friendly public website, life.gov, to provide a com-
prehensive list of Federal, State, local governmental, and 
private resources available to pregnant women including— 
‘‘(1) resources to mental health counseling, 
pregnancy counseling, and other prepartum and 
postpartum services; 
‘‘(2) comprehensive information on alternatives 
to abortion; 
‘‘(3) information about abortion risks, including 
complications and failures; and 
‘‘(4) links to information on child development 
from moment of conception. 
‘‘(b) PORTAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish 
a portal on the public website of the Department of Health 
and Human Services that— 
‘‘(1) through a series of questions, will furnish 
specific tailored information to the user on what 
pregnancy-related information they are looking for, 
such as— 
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‘‘(A) Federal, State, local governmental, 
and private resources that may be available to 
the woman within her ZIP Code, including the 
resources specified in subsection (c); and 
‘‘(B) risks related to abortion at all stages 
of fetal gestation; and 
‘‘(2) provides for the submission of feedback on 
how user-friendly and helpful the portal was in pro-
viding the tailored information the user was seeking. 
‘‘(c) RESOURCES.—The Federal, State, local govern-
mental, and private resources specified in this subsection 
are the following: 
‘‘(1) Mentorship opportunities, including preg-
nancy help and case management resources. 
‘‘(2) Health and well-being services, including 
women’s medical services such as obstetrical and 
gynecological support services for women, abortion 
pill reversal, breastfeeding, general health services, 
primary care, and dental care. 
‘‘(3) Financial assistance, work opportunities, 
nutrition assistance, childcare, and education oppor-
tunities. 
‘‘(4) Material or legal support, including trans-
portation, food, nutrition, clothing, household goods, 
baby supplies, housing, shelters, maternity homes, 
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tax preparation, legal support for child support, 
family leave, breastfeeding protections, and custody 
issues. 
‘‘(5) Recovery and mental health services, in-
cluding services with respect to addiction or suicide 
intervention, intimate partner violence, sexual as-
sault, rape, sex trafficking, and counseling for 
women and families surrounding unexpected loss of 
a child. 
‘‘(6) Prenatal diagnostic services, including dis-
ability support organizations, medical interventions 
for a baby, perinatal hospice resources, pregnancy 
and infant loss support, and literature on pregnancy 
wellness. 
‘‘(7) Healing and support services for abortion 
survivors and their families. 
‘‘(8) Services providing care for children, in-
cluding family planning education, adoption, foster 
care, and short-term care resources. 
‘‘(d) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary may not del-
egate implementation or administration of the portal es-
tablished under subsection (b) below the level of the Office 
of the Secretary. 
‘‘(e) FOLLOW-UP.—The Secretary shall develop a 
plan under which— 
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‘‘(1) the Secretary includes in the portal estab-
lished under subsection (b), a mechanism for users 
of the portal to take an assessment through the por-
tal and provide consent to use the user’s contact in-
formation; 
‘‘(2) the Secretary conducts outreach via phone 
or email to follow up with users of the portal estab-
lished under subsection (b) on additional resources 
that would be helpful for the users to review; and 
‘‘(3) upon the request of a user of the portal for 
specific information, after learning of the additional 
resources through the portal, agents of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services make every ef-
fort to furnish specific information to such user in 
coordination with Federal, State, local governmental, 
and private health care providers and resources. 
‘‘(f) RESOURCE LIST AGGREGATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to criteria devel-
oped in subsection (e)(2), each State shall provide 
recommendations of State, local governmental, and 
private resources under subsection (b)(1)(A) to in-
clude in the portal. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA
FOR
MAKING
RECOMMENDA-
TIONS.—The Secretary shall develop criteria to pro-
vide to the States to determine whether resources 
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recommended as described in paragraph (1) for in-
clusion in the portal can appear in the portal. Such 
criteria shall include the requirement that the re-
source provider is not a prohibited entity and the re-
quirement that the resource provider has been en-
gaged in providing services for a minimum of 3 con-
secutive years. 
‘‘(3) GRANT PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may 
provide grants to States to establish or support 
a system that aggregates the resources de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1)(A), in accordance 
with the criteria developed under paragraph 
(2), and that may be coordinated, to the extent 
determined appropriate by the State, by a 
statewide, regionally-based, or community-based 
public entity or private nonprofit. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a grant under subparagraph (A), a State 
shall submit an application to the Secretary at 
such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the Secretary may require, in-
cluding a plan for outreach and awareness ac-
tivities, and a list of service providers that 
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would be included in the State system sup-
ported by the grant. 
‘‘(g) MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE.—The 
Secretary shall ensure that the Maternal Mental Health 
Hotline of the Health Resources and Services Administra-
tion— 
‘‘(1) disseminates information regarding, and 
linkages to, the life.gov website and portal described 
in subsections (a) and (b); 
‘‘(2) has the capacity to help families in every 
State and community in the Nation; and 
‘‘(3) includes live chat features, 24 hours a day, 
to connect individuals to the information the portal 
hosts. 
‘‘(h) PROHIBITION
REGARDING
CERTAIN
ENTI-
TIES.—The resources listed on the life.gov website, and 
made available through the portal and hotline established 
under this section may not include any resource offered 
by a prohibited entity. 
‘‘(i) SERVICES
IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.—The 
life.gov website and hotline shall ensure the widest possible 
access to services for families who speak languages other 
than English. 
‘‘(j) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date on which the life.gov website and por-
tal are established under subsection (a), the Sec-
retary shall submit to Congress a report on— 
‘‘(A) the traffic of the website and the 
interactive portal; 
‘‘(B) user feedback on the accessibility and 
helpfulness of the website and interactive portal 
in tailoring to the user’s needs; 
‘‘(C) insights on gaps in Federal, State, 
local governmental, and private programming 
with respect to services for pregnant and 
postpartum women; and 
‘‘(D) suggestions on how to improve user 
experience and accessibility based on user feed-
back and missing resources that would be help-
ful to include in future updates. 
‘‘(2) CONFIDENTIALITY.—The report under 
paragraph (1) shall not include any personal identi-
fying information regarding individuals who have 
used the website or portal. 
‘‘(k) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) ABORTION.—The term ‘abortion’ means 
the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, 
drug, or other substance or device to intentionally— 
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‘‘(A) kill the unborn child of a woman 
known to be pregnant; or 
‘‘(B) prematurely terminate the pregnancy 
of a woman known to be pregnant, with an in-
tention other than to— 
‘‘(i) increase the probability of a live 
birth or of preserving the life or health of 
the child after live birth; or 
‘‘(ii) remove a dead unborn child. 
‘‘(2) BORN ALIVE.—The term ‘born alive’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 8(b) of title 
1, United States Code. 
‘‘(3) PROHIBITED ENTITY.—The term ‘prohib-
ited entity’ means an entity, including its affiliates, 
subsidiaries, successors, and clinics that performs, 
induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions, 
or provides financial support to any other organiza-
tion that conducts such activities. 
‘‘(4) UNBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn child’ 
means an individual organism of the species homo 
sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of 
being born alive.’’. 
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