A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Illinois hospital. She was told to go home and gave birth in her truck minutes later.

Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, will announce the WELLS Act, or the Women Expansion for Learning and Labor Safety Act on Tuesday, after Mercedes Wells gave birth to her fourth child in her car earlier this month, her office confirmed exclusively with NBC News.

Kelly’s bill, the WELLS Act, will require any hospital that provides obstetric, emergency or labor and delivery services to have a “Safe Discharge Labor Plan before discharging a patient who presents with signs or symptoms of labor.”

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