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HB1353Introduced in the House of Delegates

Statewide maternal health safety initiative; Commissioner of Health, et al., to evaluate, report.

Passed

Introduced by Laura Jane Cohen, District 15

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Commissioner of Health; feasibility of a statewide maternal health safety initiative; work group; reports. Directs the Commissioner of Health to convene a work group of relevant stakeholders, described in the bill, to evaluate the feasibility of a statewide maternal health safety initiative. The bill directs the Commissioner to submit an interim report of the work group by November 1, 2026, and a final report with the work group's recommendations no later than July 1, 2027, to the House Committee on Health and Human Services, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, and the Commission on Women's Health.

Where it stands

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781)

April 13, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House of Delegates votes

5 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

4 recorded votes · each counted separately

House of DelegatesStage: Senate substitute agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N 0-A) · March 11, 2026

98

Yes

0

No

1

Absent or Not Voting

99 delegates recorded in this House of Delegates vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each delegate voted

DelegateDistrictVote
Patrick Hope1Yes
Adele McClure2Yes
Alfonso Lopez3Yes
Charniele Herring4Yes
Kirk McPike5Yes
Richard Sullivan6Yes
Karen Keys-Gamarra7Yes
Irene Shin8Yes
Karrie Delaney9Yes
Dan Helmer10Yes

Bill history

  1. Presented and ordered printed 26104986D

  2. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

  3. Assigned sub: Health

  4. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1353)

  5. House subcommittee offered

  6. Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (10-Y 0-N)

  7. Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)

  8. Read first time

  9. Read second time

  10. committee amendment agreed to

  11. Engrossed by House as amended

  12. Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N 0-A)

  13. Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House

  14. Passed House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)

  15. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1353)

  16. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)

  17. Referred to Committee on Education and Health

  18. Assigned Education sub: Health

  19. Senate subcommittee offered

  20. Reported from Education and Health with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)

  21. Committee substitute printed 26108478D-S1

  22. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1353)

  23. Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)

  24. Rules suspended

  25. Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  26. Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)

  27. Read third time

  28. Education and Health Substitute agreed to

  29. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute

  30. Passed Senate with substitute Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A)

  31. Senate substitute agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N 0-A)

  32. Enrolled

  33. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1353ER)

  34. Signed by President

  35. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1353)

  36. Signed by Speaker

  37. Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 31, 2026

  38. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026

  39. Approved by Governor-Chapter 781 (effective 7/1/2026)

  40. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781)

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