Bill extends health coverage for pregnant women one year after birth.
S. 4913 — MOMMIES Act · Filed by Cory Booker (D-NJ) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The MOMMIES Act lets pregnant women and new mothers keep Medicaid and CHIP health insurance. Coverage lasts at least one year after the baby is born. States must keep the same rules for who can sign up. The bill adds dental care as a covered service. The federal government pays 100 percent of the new costs. States do not have to pay extra. The bill sets up maternity care homes in at least 10 states. It studies doula services and telehealth.
Who it affects
Low-income pregnant women and new mothers gain health coverage. Coverage lasts through one year after birth. States must keep current eligibility rules. Doctors and clinics that serve pregnant women may get higher pay.
One thing to notice
The bill locks in coverage rules through 2027 for Medicaid and 2031 for CHIP. It does not stop states from narrowing benefits after those dates. Doula services and telehealth are studied but not required to be covered.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 5 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Finance · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $652,972 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 56 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Cory Booker, who sponsored the bill, received $495,800 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc — $652,972 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Medicaid — A government health insurance program for low-income people.
- CHIP — Children's Health Insurance Program; health coverage for kids in low-income families.
- doula — A trained person who helps and supports women during pregnancy and birth.
- telehealth — Health care visits done by phone or video instead of in person.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (38,456 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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