“A bill to reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act.”
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This section reauthorizes appropriations under the Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act (PREEMIE Act)—which supports CDC research, surveillance, and education on preterm birth prevention and care for preterm and low birthweight infants—through FY2029 (from FY2023). It also makes a technical correction to a section reference in the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2018.
This section requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with other departments as appropriate, to establish an interagency working group on preterm birth not later than 18 months after enactment of the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act of 2025 (previously permitting the Secretary to establish such a working group).
This section directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an arrangement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to convene, not later than 30 days after enactment, a committee of maternal health experts to study preterm births in the United States and, not later than 24 months after enactment, transmit a consensus report—with raw data—to the Secretary, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Senate Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The report must assess (1) financial costs of preterm birth to society, including neonatal intensive care unit stays, long-term post-discharge costs to society and families, and family health care costs such as medications, therapies, copayments, and equipment; (2) factors impacting preterm birth rates; and (3) opportunities for earlier detection of risk factors, including improvements to maternal and infant health and public health program support for parents in-hospital, non-hospital settings, and post-discharge. The report must also analyze (1) targeted research strategies for drugs, treatments, or interventions to bring at-risk pregnancies to term; (2) best practices from state and other programs to reduce preterm birth rates; and (3) precision medicine and preventative care approaches from early life (including pregnancy), focusing on behavioral and biological influences on preterm birth, child health, and lifelong trajectories.