H.B. 434 Summary

• Designates May as "Maternal Mortality Awareness Month" in Ohio.

• Restructures the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) Board to expand membership to include representatives from diverse medical and social disciplines, women with lived experience of severe maternal morbidity, and individuals from medically underserved areas.

• Requires hospitals and freestanding birthing centers to annually report severe maternal morbidity data to the Department of Health, with the director adopting rules to specify the data and reporting methods.

• Changes PAMR Board reporting from biennial to annual reports and creates a separate annual report on severe maternal morbidity trends; reports must include data disaggregated by insurance coverage, race, and ethnicity.

• Adds section 3738.99 making unauthorized dissemination of confidential pregnancy-associated mortality review information a second-degree misdemeanor.