NIH IMPROVE Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3254 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3254 To establish the IMPROVE Initiative within the National Institutes of Health. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 20, 2025 Mrs. Britt (for herself and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish the IMPROVE Initiative within the National Institutes of Health. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``NIH Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone'' or the ``NIH IMPROVE Act''. SEC. 2. IMPROVE INITIATIVE. Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 284 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``SEC. 409K. IMPROVE INITIATIVE. ``(a) In General.--The Director of NIH shall continue to carry out a program to improve maternal health outcomes, to be known as the Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone Initiative or the `IMPROVE Initiative' (referred to in this section as the `Initiative'). ``(b) Objectives.--The Initiative shall-- ``(1) advance research to-- ``(A) reduce preventable causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity; ``(B) reduce health disparities related to maternal health outcomes, including such disparities associated with populations with disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity relative to the national rate; and ``(C) improve health for pregnant and postpartum women before, during, and after pregnancy; ``(2) use an integrated approach to understand the factors, includin