To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a grant program improving treatment for pregnant and postpartum women.

Bill: 115-hr-5151
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2018-03-01
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Home and outpatient care

Sex and reproductive health

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to extend through FY2023 a grant program for public and nonprofit private entities that provide residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women being treated for substance use disorders.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5151 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 1, 2018 Mr. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a grant program improving treatment for pregnant and postpartum women.

1. Improving treatment for pregnant and postpartum women Section 508(s) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 290bb–1(s) ) is amended in the first sentence by inserting before the period the following: , and $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023 .