by Eden Desta | May 1, 2023 | Legislative Updates
The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) continues to lead partners and collaborate with Congressional champions in support of federal maternal and child health programs through the annual federal appropriations process for the upcoming Fiscal...
by Chery Manon Espinal | Jan 9, 2022 | Legislative Updates
*Note: this text has been updated from a legislative alert first published on 12/20/2022 to reflect new developments On Thursday, December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law a bipartisan omnibus appropriations bill to set the discretionary funding levels for...
by Eden Desta | Nov 29, 2022 | Legislative Updates
The House of Representatives is set to vote this week on HR 8876, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program for five years. The Association...
by Eden Desta | Nov 14, 2022 | Government Affairs, Legislative Updates
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Leader McCarthy, and Leader McConnell: We, the undersigned 109 national organizations committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our nation’s families, commend your ongoing leadership to advance legislation to...
by Chery Manon Espinal | Sep 27, 2022 | Legislative Updates
On Tuesday, September 26, Congress released a stopgap funding bill with just three days left in the current fiscal year. The legislation, known as a Continuing Resolution (CR), would avert a government shutdown and fund the federal government at current levels through...
by Chery Manon Espinal | Jul 1, 2022 | Government Affairs, Legislative Updates
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2023 (FY23) Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (L-HHS) bill, including significant increases to the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block...
