1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mothers and Newborns Success Act . 2. Findings and sense of the Senate (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Among developed nations, the United States has disturbingly high rates of maternal and infant mortality. (2) The United States maternal mortality rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, which is significantly higher than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (referred to in this section as the OECD ) average of 9.8, according to the Commonwealth Fund. (3) The United States infant mortality rate in 2020 was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, while the OECD average was 4.1 deaths per 1,000 live births. (4) In the United States, there are significant maternal mortality and infant mortality inequities. (5) The maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women in 2020 was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births. This rate is 2.89 times higher than the maternal mortality rate of 19.1 deaths per 100,000 live births for non-Hispanic white women and more than 3 times higher than the maternal mortality rate of 18.2 deaths per 100,000 live births for Hispanic women of any race. (6) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from 2016 through 2018 shows that American Indian/Alaska Native women also have significantly higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths than white, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander women. American Indian/Alaska Native women had a rate of 26.5 pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births from 2016 through 2018, which is 1.9 times higher than the rate of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 live births for white women during the same time period. (7) The mortality rate for infants of non-Hispanic Black women is 10.6 deaths per 1,000 live births and for infants of American Indian or Alaska Native women it is 7.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. These rates are significantly higher than the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic white infants at 4.5 deaths per 1,000 live births and the infant mortality rate of