Cosponsor
Sign in

HR 8055 · in committee · significant

Extending WIC for New Moms Act

What this bill does

  • This bill extends WIC nutrition benefits for breastfeeding women from 12 to 24 months postpartum.
  • New mothers and postpartum women receiving WIC benefits are affected by the expanded eligibility.
  • States can opt into the extended coverage; USDA must report on health outcomes within a set timeframe.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How would extending WIC benefits to 24 months instead of 12 affect federal nutrition program costs and state budgets?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that additional nutrition support beyond 12 months postpartum improves maternal and infant health outcomes?

  3. 03

    Should states have the option to opt into extended WIC coverage, or should the benefit extension apply uniformly across all states?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · D-GA-6

Lucy McBath

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

89/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2026-03-24

Joining the bill

+ 77 more

Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-03-24 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

  2. 2026-03-24 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2026-03-24 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.