HR3235-119

What This Bill Does

The MOMS Act builds a federal pregnancy-support infrastructure. HHS must create pregnancy.gov within one year as a ZIP-code searchable clearinghouse for pregnant and postpartum women and women parenting young children, including online and distance-filtered resources, optional contact-consent assessments, state resource recommendations, multilingual access, user-feedback reporting, and a prohibition on listing or funding entities that perform, induce, refer for, counsel in favor of, or financially support abortions. States can receive grants to aggregate resources. The Children's Bureau must maintain a national list of licensed nonprofit child placement agencies. HHS must list federal funding opportunities for pregnancy support centers. The bill authorizes positive-alternatives grants for nonprofit entities that provide referrals or direct services such as medical care, nutrition, housing, adoption, education, child care, parenting support, and substance-abuse treatment, excluding abortion-related entities and uses. It also funds prenatal and postnatal telehealth equipment for rural, frontier, medically underserved, Tribal, and Tribal organization jurisdictions, and requires states to establish requested child support obligations for unborn children beginning as early as conception, subject to maternal consent and medical-safety limits.

Who Benefits and How

Pregnant women benefit from a federal ZIP-code searchable resource directory and optional follow-up outreach for services near them. Pregnancy support centers benefit from federal funding-opportunity listings and positive-alternatives grants if they meet the abortion-related eligibility restrictions. Licensed child placement agencies benefit from a national public list maintained through pregnancy.gov and state submissions. Rural prenatal care providers benefit from grants or cooperative agreements for remote physiologic devices, blood pressure cuffs, scales, glucose monitors, and other telehealth equipment.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Abortion providers are excluded from pregnancy.gov resource listings and from grant eligibility if they perform, induce, refer for, counsel in favor of, or financially support abortions. HHS Office staff must build pregnancy.gov, review state resource systems, monitor grantees, publish reports, and maintain funding lists. State child welfare agencies must submit annual lists of licensed nonprofit child placement agencies and comply with related reporting conditions. Biological fathers may face child support obligations beginning with the month of conception if the mother requests enforcement.

Key Provisions

• Establishes pregnancy.gov as a ZIP-code searchable clearinghouse with state resource grants and multilingual access.
• Requires national lists of licensed child placement agencies and federal funding opportunities for pregnancy support centers.
• Authorizes positive-alternatives grants for nonprofit pregnancy support services while excluding abortion-related entities and uses.
• Provides prenatal and postnatal telehealth equipment grants and requires requested unborn-child support enforcement by states.