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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 3424 (Introduced in Senate) — To end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States and close disparities in mat... · Sec. 705

Sec. 705. GAO report

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Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on adverse maternal health outcomes among incarcerated individuals, with a particular focus on racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for incarcerated individuals. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include— to the extent practicable— the number of incarcerated individuals, including those incarcerated in Federal, State, and local correctional facilities, who have experienced a pregnancy-related death or pregnancy-associated death in the most recent 10 years of available data; the number of cases of severe maternal morbidity among incarcerated individuals, including those incarcerated in Federal, State, and local detention facilities, in the most recent year of available data; and statistics on the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes and severe maternal morbidity rates among incarcerated individuals, including those incarcerated in Federal, State, and local detention facilities; in the case that the Comptroller General of the United States is unable to determine the information required in subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)of paragraph (1), an assessment of the barriers to determining such information and recommendations for improvements in tracking maternal health outcomes among incarcerated individuals, including those incarcerated in Federal, State, and local detention facilities; causes of adverse maternal health outcomes that are unique to incarcerated individuals, including those incarcerated in Federal, State, and local detention facilities; causes of adverse maternal health outcomes and severe maternal morbidity that are unique to incarcerated individuals of color; recommendations to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among incarcerated individuals and to address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for incarcerated individuals in Bureau of Prisons facilities and State and local prisons and jails; and such other information as may be appropriate to reduce the occurrence of adverse maternal health outcomes among incarcerated individuals and to address racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for such individuals.
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