Contact Congress about S. 2842: Stop CMV Act of 2025

This bill would help more newborns get tested for congenital CMV. States could set testing rules, and federal grants would help pay for testing, data systems, and education.

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Stop CMV Act of 2025 is a Senate bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Latest action on S. 2842: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects newborn babies, their families, hospitals, state health departments, and health care workers. Families could learn sooner if a baby has congenital CMV. Hospitals and state agencies could take on new testing, recordkeeping, follow-up, and education work. Federal health agencies would also have new duties tied to grants, data, standards, and research.

Why this matters: Congenital CMV can harm some babies, and early testing could help families and doctors respond sooner. The bill could make CMV testing more common and more organized across states. It could also improve CMV data, education, and research. But the bill does not force every hospital to test every baby, and some results depend on how states and hospitals choose to act.

Key provisions in S. 2842

• Hospitals and other health care providers could test newborns for congenital CMV. The bill applies to babies 21 days old or younger who are in their care.
• Each state’s chief health officer could set the rules for CMV testing. Those rules could cover records, case tracking, follow-up reviews, and education.
• A federal newborn screening advisory committee must review and approve state CMV screening rules. The committee is the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children.
• If a state has no approved CMV rules after two years, the federal advisory committee must write model rules. The state may use those rules, but the bill does not clearly force it to do so.
• HRSA, the federal agency that supports health care access, would give grants to states with CMV rules. States would pass the money to hospitals and similar providers so they can run tests.

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This bill would help more newborns get tested for congenital CMV. States could set testing rules, and federal grants would help pay for testing, data systems, and education.

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