Notice2025-23571
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement Information System, OMB No. 0915-0017-Revision.
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Published
December 22, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentHealth Resources and Services Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the ICR.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59844-59845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23571]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request; Information Collection Request Title: The
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance
Measurement Information System, OMB No. 0915-0017--Revision.
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, HRSA announces plans to submit an Information Collection
Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments from the
public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any other aspect of the
ICR.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than February
20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a6d6c7d6c3d4d1c9d4cde6ced4d5c788c1c9d0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b2b3a2b3e292c3429301b3329283a753c342d">[email protected]</span></a> or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 13N82, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b9c9d8c9dccbced6cbd2f9d1cbcad897ded6cf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="601001100512170f120b20081213014e070f16">[email protected]</span></a> or call Samantha Miller,
the HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer, at (301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the ICR title for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: The Maternal, Infant, and
Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement
Information System, OMB No. 0915-0017--Revision.
Abstract: This request is for continued approval of the Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program Performance
Measurement Information System. The MIECHV Program is administered by
the Maternal and Child Health Bureau within HRSA in partnership with
the Administration for Children and Families, and provides support to
all 56 states and jurisdictions, as well as tribes and tribal
organizations. Through a needs assessment, states, jurisdictions,
tribes, and tribal organizations identify target populations and select
the home visiting service delivery model(s) that best meet their needs.
State and jurisdiction MIECHV funding recipients report annual
demographic and performance data to HRSA through Form 1--Demographic
Performance Measures and Form 2--Benchmark Performance Measures. MIECHV
funding recipients also report program information on a quarterly basis
through Form 4--Quarterly Data Collection (Currently approved under OMB
No. 0906-0016). This ICR will now include Forms 1, 2, and 4, so all the
components of data collection for the MIECHV Program in one request.
OMB No. 0906-0016 will be discontinued after OMB approval of this ICR.
HRSA is revising the data collection forms for the MIECHV Program
to reduce administrative burden where possible and to increase
alignment with current clinical guidelines, evidence-based guidelines,
and performance measures of other maternal and child health programs.
HRSA proposes the following changes:
<bullet> Form 1 cross-cutting changes:
[cir] Remove new and continuing participant categories from Tables
4, 5, 18, 19, and 20.
[cir] Remove pregnant participant and caregiver categories for
Table 9, 10, 11, and 18.
[cir] Add Section D: Place Based Services to collect, on an annual
basis, information previously reported quarterly on Form 4.
[cir] Renumber tables as appropriate per other changes.
<bullet> Form 1, Tables 1 and 2: Combine Tables 1 and 2 into one
table that captures new and continuing participants and households
together.
<bullet> Form 1, Table 4: Decrease the number of response
categories for age of adult participants from 10 to 6.
<bullet> Form 1, Tables 6 and 7: Update response categories to
align with OMB's Statistical Policy Directive 15: Standards for
Maintaining, Collecting and Presenting Federal Data on Race and
Ethnicity.
<bullet> Form 1, Table 8: Remove this table from the data
collection form.
<bullet> Form 1, Table 11: Streamline reporting for adult
participants by housing status by decreasing ``Not Homeless'' data sub-
categories from 5 to
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1 and ``Homeless'' sub-categories from 3 to 2.
<bullet> Form 2, Performance Measure 3: Add a sub-measure to
collect data on anxiety screening.
<bullet> Form 2, Performance Measure 5: Expand the postpartum visit
window to within 12 weeks (84 days) of delivery.
<bullet> Form 2, Performance Measure 6: Update the measure
definition of ``tobacco use'' to explicitly mention inclusion of e-
tobacco use.
<bullet> Form 2, Performance Measure 7: Update the safe sleep
measure to specify a 2-week lookback period for the reporting window.
<bullet> Form 2, Performance Measure 17: Add a sub-measure to
collect data on completed anxiety referrals.
<bullet> Form 4, Table A2: Remove the table from Form 4; the table
will be moved to Form 1.
<bullet> Form 4, Table A3: Remove this table from data collection.
<bullet> Forms 1, 2, and 4: Update Definition of Key Terms to
reflect the changes.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: HRSA uses performance
information to demonstrate program accountability and continuously
monitor and provide oversight to MIECHV Program awardees. The
information is also used to provide quality improvement guidance and
technical assistance to awardees and help inform the development of
early childhood systems at the national, state, and local level. HRSA
is seeking to revise and extend collection of (1) demographic, service
utilization, and select clinical indicators for participants enrolled
in home visiting services, and location of services (annually via Form
1); (2) a set of standardized performance and outcome indicators that
correspond with the statutorily identified benchmark areas (annually
via Form 2); and (3) home visiting program capacity and staffing data
(quarterly via Form 4).
This information will be used to demonstrate awardees' compliance
with legislative and programmatic requirements. It will also be used to
monitor and provide continued oversight of awardee performance and
target technical assistance resources for awardees. Revisions to the
forms meet a statutory requirement to reduce administrative burden for
MIECHV funding recipients (Section 511(h)(6)(A) of the Social Security
Act). HRSA reviewed the information collected and streamlined, where
possible, to collect the optimum amount of data necessary to fulfill
awardee performance measurement and demonstration of improvement
requirements. Additionally, other revisions have been made to align
performance measures with other maternal and child health programs,
with current Statistical Policy Directive 15 (Standards for
Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and
Ethnicity), and current clinical and evidence-based guidelines. The
revisions reflect feedback from current MIECHV funding recipients, home
visiting model developers, and federal partners.
Likely Respondents: MIECHV Program funding recipients that are
states, jurisdictions, and, where applicable, nonprofit organizations
providing home visiting services within states.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
HRSA updated the estimated burden hours based on data collected in
summer 2024 under OMB No. 0906-0094, titled ``Implement MIECHV Program
2022 Legislative Changes: Assessment of Administrative Burden.'' The
same group of 56 respondents will complete each form.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Form name Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Form 1: Demographic, Service 56 1 56 448 25,088
Utilization, and Select
Clinical Indicators............
Form 2: Performance Indicators 56 1 56 723 40,488
and Systems Outcome Measures...
Form 4: Section A--Quarterly 56 4 224 35 7,840
Performance Report.............
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Total....................... 56 .............. 336 .............. 73,416
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HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2025-23571 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
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