1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Department of Health and Human Services puts the national infant mortality rate at 5.96 deaths per 1,000 live births. (2) Despite national reductions in infant mortality, a racial disparity in infant mortality rates exists in every State and territory, with non-Hispanic Black infants more than twice as likely to die before their first birthday than non-Hispanic White infants. (3) Infants born to low-income women are more likely to die before their first birthday than infants born in higher-income households. (4) The three leading clinical causes of infant death are prematurity due to preterm birth and low birthweight, birth defects, and sleep-related deaths. (5) The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the rate of preterm live births is twice the national rate for African-American women, 1.5 times the national rate for American Indians and Alaskan Natives, and 1.4 times the national rate for Latinos. (6) The long-term medical and social services associated with low birthweight infants and children born premature cost American taxpayers $26.2 billion per year, with first-year expenses for the smallest surviving babies averaging $273,900. (7) Employers pay 12 times more in health care costs for babies born with complications, and prenatal interventions that result in full-term birth save employers $49,760. (8) Women can reduce the risk of mortality to their infants if they have access to culturally appropriate, accurate information from trusted providers about how to improve their health practices and behaviors during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. (9) For 25 years, the Healthy Start for Infants Program has identified and addressed the aforementioned knowledge gaps, clinical contributors, and upstream social and generational factors leading to infant death, targeting communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5