RESOLVE works with advocacy volunteers and other organizations to ensure equal access to all family building options for men and women experiencing infertility or other reproductive disorders. In 2019, RESOLVE will be tracking state legislation that impact the family building community, whether they are pro-family or anti-family bills. Find out what is happening in your state. If you know of a bill in your state but it is not listed below, please contact RESOLVE at info@resolve.org.

Arizona

Bill Number: HB 2386

Updated: January 2, 2020

  • Description of Bill: All health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/21/2019 introduced. Hearing on 10/10/19 to assign to committee. Sunrise application has been assigned to Senate Finance Committee and House Appropriations Committee for bill to be re-introduced in 2020. Bill hearing on 10/10/19 to assign to committee. Senate Finance Committee will have a hearing on 12/17/19.
  • Link to Bill: HB 2386;
  • Action Needed: Send a letter to the Senate Finance Committee members in support of the bill. If interested in participating in the Senate Finance Committee hearing, please email advocacy@resolve.org. Please follow Arizona FIGHT for Infertility Coverage Facebook Page.
  • Read Phoenix woman seeks mandated coverage of fertility treatment, azcapitoltimes.com, October 18, 2019
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of support

Arkansas

Bill Number: HB 1761

Added: May 2, 2019

  • Description of Bill: To create the Egg Provider Protection Act.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 3/8/2019 introduced. Bill died in  Senate Committee.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1761;

California

Bill Number: SB 600

Updated: October13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This bill would clarify that an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses includes coverage for standard fertility preservation services. This bill would also prohibit a health insurer from denying coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 2/25/2019 introduced and referred to the Senate Committee on Health. CA SB 600 passed the Health Committee 8-1 on 4/24/19. Bill moves to Appropriations Committee. SB 600 passed the Senate Appropriations Committee on 5/16/19. California Senate passed the bill. The bill will be heard 7/9/19  in the Assembly Committee on Health. SB 600 passed the Assembly Health Committee and was referred to Appropriations Committee on 7/9/19. SB 600 passed the Appropriations Committee on 8/30/19. The revised bill passed the Assembly on 9/9/2019. The bill goes back to the Senate for their consideration on 9/11/2019. The bill passed the Senate and goes to the Governor for his signature. Governor signed the bill into law on 10/12/2019
  • Link to Bill: SB 600;
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of support.
  • SB 600 Will End Insurer Denials of Fertility Preservation, foxandhoundsdaily.com, September 5, 2019
  • Fertility options for cancer patients must be covered under new California law, latimes.com, October 13, 2019

Bill Number: AB 767

Updated: January 16, 2020

Bill Number: AB 922

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This bill, until January 1, 2024, would require individuals who provide human oocytes for research to be compensated for their time, discomfort, and inconvenience in the same manner as other research subjects, as prescribed and determined by a human subject research panel or institutional review board
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Read second time. Ordered to third reading – 4/22/2019. Bill passed in the Assembly. Sent to the Senate on 5/20/2019 and referred to Senate Committee on Health. Voted to pass the bill out of the committee on 6/12/19. Read the second time and ordered third reading on 6/13/19. Signed by governor 10/13/19.
  • Link to Bill: AB 922;
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of support.
  • Action Needed: Please sign up for RESOLVE action alerts to stay up to date on legislative activity in your state.

Connecticut

Bill Number: SB 339

Added: February 8, 2019

  • Description of Bill: To require that certain health insurance policies delivered, issued for delivery, amended, renewed or continued in this state provide coverage for elective fertility preservation treatments.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Public hearing to be held on 2/14/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 339;

Hawaii

Bill Number: SB 325/HB 1265

Updated: February 6, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Clarifies that evidence demonstrating an alleged parent’s non-consent to an artificial insemination procedure that resulted in the birth of a child may be introduced as evidence relating to paternity.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/18/2019 Senate bill introduced. 1/22/2019 referred to Senate JDC. 1/24/2019 House bill introduced. 1/28/2019 referred to House JUD. Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Thursday, 02-07-19 2:05PM in House conference room 325.
  • Link to Bill: SB325; HB1265;

Illinois

Bill Number: HB 3531

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that if a hospital has a gestational surrogacy contract on file for a gestational surrogate or has otherwise received the gestational surrogacy contract from a gestational surrogate, the hospital may not deny an intended parent entry into the delivery room where the gestational surrogate is being induced or in labor. Provides exceptions if: medical personnel determine that the gestational surrogate’s life or health could be jeopardized; the gestational surrogacy contract prohibits an intended parent from being present; or medical personnel determine there is other good cause to prohibit an intended parent from being present, including, but not limited to, if the intended parent is causing a disturbance or other security concerns.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Assigned to Senate Public Health – 04/24/2019. Signed by governor 08/09/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 3531;

Bill Number: HB 3587

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Amends the Adoption Act. Changes the definition of “post-placement and post-adoption support services.” Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall establish and maintain a toll-free number to respond to requests from the public about its post-placement and post-adoption support services. Provides that the Department shall provide information about post-placement and post-adoption support services to prospective adoptive parents and guardians as part of its adoption and guardianship training. Provides that the Department shall include specific information in its annual notification letter. Provides that the Department shall review and update annually all information relating to its post-placement and post-adoption support services.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Assigned to Senate Human Services Committee – 04/24/2019. Signed by governor 07/26/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 3587;

Indiana

Bill Number: HB 1369

Added: February 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Assisted reproduction and gestational surrogacy. Amends provisions regarding testing of donated human sperm and eggs. Repeals current Indiana law regarding surrogacy agreements. Enacts the gestational surrogacy act and the gamete donation act.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/14/2019 introduced and referred to Committee on Judiciary. 02/11/2019 committee voted to adopt the bill.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1369;

Bill Number: SB 174

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Provides that a physician who treats a patient of that physician for infertility: (1) by using the physician’s own spermatozoon or ovum, without the patient’s consent; or (2) by using donated human reproductive material without the consent of the donor; commits fertility fraud, a Level 6 felony.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/3/2019 introduced and referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law. Signed by governor 05/05/2019
  • Link to Bill: SB 174;

Kentucky

Bill Number: HB 87

Added: January 21, 2019

  • Description of Bill: All health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/8/2019 introduced in House of Representatives. 1/20/19 referred to House Committee on Banking and Insurance Committee.
  • Link to Bill: HB 87;

Maine

Bill Number: LD 494

Bill Name: An Act To Update the Family Planning Statutes
Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Includes mention of prevention of infertility in definition of family planning services.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 01/31/2019, Senate Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services 01/31/2019, the House Bill was referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.  Hearing set for Feb 25 at  Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Signed by governor 06/07/2019
  • Link to Bill: LD 494;

Maryland

Bill Number: SB 697/ HB 519

Bill Name: Family Law – Parentage and Adoption
Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction during the marriage of the child’s mother with the consent of the mother’s spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses for all purposes; establishing the circumstances under which a child is the child of an individual who did not give birth to the child; establishing a certain rebuttable presumption regarding the parentage of a child born to parents who have not participated in a marriage ceremony with each other; etc..
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports these bills.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Senate bill introduced on 2/4/19 and passed from the Judiciary Proceedings Committee. House bill passed with amendments on 3/18/2019. Signed by governor 05/13/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 697; HB 519;

Massachusetts

Bill Number: S 560

Bill Name: An Act Relative To Preserving Fertility
Updated: October 1, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Any coverage offered by the commission to an active or retired employee of the commonwealth insured under the group insurance commission shall provide, to the same extent that benefits are provided for other pregnancy-related procedures, coverage for standard fertility preservation services when the enrollee has a diagnosed medical or genetic condition that may directly or indirectly cause impairment of fertility by affecting reproductive organs or processes. Said coverage will include the coverage for procurement, cryopreservation, and storage of gametes, embryos or other reproductive tissue.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/22/2019 Senate referred to the committee on Financial Services. 1/22/2019 House concurred. Hearing will be held on 10/8/2019.
  • Link to Bill: S560;

Bill Number: S 77/H 139

Bill Name: An Act relative to parentage to promote children’s security, also known as the Massachusetts Parentage Act
Updated: September 9, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Clarifies who can be a parent and how to establish legal parentage. The MPA is based on the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017, which is a model, uniform law that advises all states to ensure that their parentage statutes are constitutional.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/22/2019 Senate referred to the committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities. 1/22/2019 House concurred. Joint hearing scheduled for 9/10/2019.
  • Link to Bill: S 77; H. 139
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of support.

Bill Number: HB 1485

Bill Name:An Act to promote efficiency in co-parent adoptions.
Added: July 19, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Whenever, as a result of assisted reproduction, a child is born into a marriage or legal relationship that provides substantially the same rights, benefits, and responsibilities as marriage and is recognized as valid in the state or jurisdiction in which it was entered, and the spouses wish to complete an adoption of the child to affirm parentage, the court shall permit the spouses to file a petition for adoption in accordance with this section. Whenever a child is born into a presumption of parentage pursuant to Section 6(a)(4) of Chapter 209C of the General Laws as a result of assisted reproduction and the non-marital parents wish to complete an adoption of the child to affirm parentage, the court shall permit the non-marital parents to file a petition for adoption in accordance with this section.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 01/22/2019, Senate, Referred to the committee on The Judiciary. 01/22/2019, House, House concurred. 07/16/2019, Hearing scheduled for 07/23/2019 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1 & A-2.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1485;

Minnesota

Bill Number: SF 2766

Updated: July 8, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Every health plan under subdivision 1 must provide​ coverage for procedures related to infertility diagnosis and treatment that are considered​ medically necessary by the enrollee’s treating health care provider and recognized by either the American Society for Reproductive Medicine or the American College of Obstetrics​ and Gynecologists.​
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy on 04/03/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SF 2766;

Bill Number: HF 1140/SF 1533

Updated: July 8, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Gestational Carrier Act to regulate gestational surrogacy arrangements.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division on February 14, 2019. Passed the Judiciary Committee on 3/14/2019 and referred to Ways and Means Committee and HHS Finance Division.
  • Link to Bill: HF 1140; SF 1533;

Bill Number: SF 755/ HF 724

Updated: July 8, 2019

  • Description of Bill: A bill for an act relating to family law; clarifying the parentage of a woman who provides donated ova; and clarifying rights of spouse to parentage when assisted reproductive technology is used.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill with amendments.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Referred to Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee on 1/31/2019. House introduced bill on 2/4/19.
  • Link to Bill: SF 755; HF 724;

Bill Number: HF 1000/SF 1152

Updated: July 8, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Traditional and gestational surrogacy arrangements regulated, and operation of a for-profit surrogacy agency crime created.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: House introduced bill on 2/11/19. Senate introduced bill on 2/14/2019 and referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy Committee.
  • Link to Bill: HF 1000; SF 1152;

Mississippi

Bill Number: HB 1478

Added: February 6, 2019

  • Description of Bill:An act to require health insurance policies that provide pregnancy related benefits to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses of diagnosis and treatment of infertility. To establish a pilot program in the state and school employees health insurance plan that provides for coverage medically necessary expenses of tests and procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill with amendments.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/21/2019 referred to insurance committee. The bill died in committee.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1478;

Resolution Number: HC 34

Resolution Name: Constitution; provide equal protection for the right to life of each born and unborn human person.
Added: January 25, 2019

  • Description of Resolution: A concurrent Resolution proposing an amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to provide equal protection for the right to life of each born and unborn human person.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Resolution: RESOLVE opposes this Resolution.
  • Current status of the Resolution in the legislative process: The Resolution was referred to the to the Constitution Committee on 1/21/19.
  • Link to Resolution: HC 34
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Missouri

Bill Number: HB 1047

Added: May 22, 2019

  • Description of Bill: If a dispute is brought before a court of this state involving the custody of an in vitro human embryo, the court shall render a decision according to this bill. The court shall determine custody in accordance with the best interest of the in vitro human embryo. It is presumed that it is in the best interest of the in vitro human embryo to place him or her in the custody of the ovum donor or spermatozoon donor who intends to develop the in vitro human embryo to birth, subject to rebuttal evidence.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 2/25/2019 introduced. Read second time on 2/26/2019. Referred to House Committee on Children and Families on 5/17/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1047;

Bill Number: HB 788

Added: May 22, 2019

  • Description of Bill: To repeal section 452.375, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to custody of in vitro human embryos.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/31/2019 introduced. Read second time on 2/4/2019. Referred to House Committee on Children and Families on 5/17/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 788;

Bill Number: SB 92/ HB 855

Updated: February 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This act requires health benefit plans issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in the state following August 28, 2019, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, as defined in the act. Coverage for certain procedures is required only where less costly treatments have been unsuccessful, the patient has not undergone a certain number of prior procedures as specified in the act, and the procedures are performed at medical facilities that conform to the in vitro fertilization standards of the American College of Obstetric and Gynecology or the American Fertility Society. This act contains an exemption for religious organizations, and entities sponsored by religious organizations, that find the procedures to violate their religious and moral teachings and beliefs.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE does not support this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 12/1/2018 introduced in the Senate. 2/11/19 introduced in the House.
  • Link to Bill: SB 92; HB 855;

Resolution Number: HJR 28

Added: January 28, 2019

  • Description of Resolution:  That the term “person” under this constitution includes every human being, including every in utero human child at every stage of biological development from the moment of conception until birth.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Resolution: RESOLVE opposes Resolution.
  • Current status of the Resolution in the legislative process: Resolution introduced to House on January 23, 2019 and read a second time on January 24, 2019.
  • Link to Resolution: HJR 28;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Bill Number: HB 671

Bill Name: Right to Due Process Act
Added: January 28, 2019

  • Description of Bill: The general assembly of this state finds that the life of each human being begins at fertilization and each human being is hereby deemed a person beginning at the time of fertilization; Children in women’s wombs have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being; The natural parents of a child in a woman’s womb have protectable interests in the life, health, and well-being of their child in the womb.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Introduced on 1/24/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 671
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Bill Number: HB 245

Added: January 15, 2018

  • Description of Bill: This bill requires insurance companies to cover fertility preservation procedures for insureds who are at least 18 years old and are diagnosed with cancer but have not started cancer treatment. Coverage shall include embryo, oocyte, and sperm cryopreservation procedures. Any entity or individual who states in writing that methods of embryo, oocyte, and sperm cyropreservation procedures are contrary to the entity or individual’s moral, ethical, or religious beliefs the carrier may issue a policy or rider thereto that excludes coverage for such methods. This bill is similar to HB 2388 (2018).
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 12/14/2018 introduced. Read second time on 1/10/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 245;

Montana

Bill Number: HB 302

Added: February 6, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  This bill is an amendment to the Montana Constitution defining “person” to include all members of mankind at any stage of development.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process:
  • Link to Bill: HB 302;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of opposition.
  • Action Needed: Send letter to your Representative now – it takes just minutes to voice your oppose this bill.

Nebraska

Bill Number: LB 501

Updated: February 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill:A Bill for an Act relating to insurance; to require insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization procedures as prescribed; and to provide for rules and regulations by the Department of Insurance.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/22/2019 introduced. 1/24/2019 referred to Banking, Commerce, and Insurance Committee. Notice of committee hearing for March 04, 2019
  • Link to Bill: LB 501;

Nevada

Bill Number: AB 472

Updated: June 26, 2019

  • Description of Bill: An Act relating to insurance; prohibiting an insurer from denying certain coverage for maternity care because the insured acts as a gestational carrier; deeming a child carried by a gestational carrier to be the child of the intended parent for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. This bill passed both the Assembly and Senate. It has been sent to the Governor for signature. The bill was signed into law by the Governor on 5/29/2019.
  • Link to Bill: AB 472;

New Hampshire

Bill Number: SB 279

Bill Title: Relative to access to fertility care.
Updated: July 19, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This bill makes medical treatment for infertility and related conditions affordable for New Hampshire residents and employers, so as to attract and retain young families, expand the state’s health care resources, reduce overall health care costs, and improve health outcomes for the resulting children.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/29/2019 introduced. 1/24/2019 referred to Senate Commerce Committee. Hearing to be held on 2/7/19. 3/14/2019 SB 279 was approved unanimously by the New Hampshire Senate on a voice vote. The fertility access legislation in New Hampshire will have its House Commerce Committee hearing next Tuesday 4/23. SB 279 passed the New Hampshire House by a vote of 210-147 on 6/5/2019. SB279 was sent to Committee of Conference to reconcile the different versions that passed the House and Senate. The committee agreed to the House version and the conference committee report was adopted by both chamber on 6/27/19. Governor Sununu signed the bill into law on 8/1/19.
  • Link to Bill: SB279;
  • Read RESOLVE’s letter of support
  • Read Having A Baby Could Become A Little Easier In A Certain Maple-Syrup Loving State published by Above the Law on February 13, 2019.
  • Read N.H. to require insurance to cover fertility care published by Valley News on July 4, 2019.

New Jersey

Bill Number: A 4938

Added: August 28, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Requires DOH to establish “My Life, My Plan” program to support women of childbearing age in developing reproductive life plan.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Passed the NJ Assembly and Senate on 6/20/2019.
  • Link to Bill: A 4938;

Bill Numbers: S2133\A3150

Updated: January 13, 2020

  • Description of Bill: Mandates health benefits coverage for fertility preservation services under certain health insurance plans.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 2/8/2018 Introduced in the Assembly. Bill referred to Assembly Women and Children Committee on 3/5/2018. Introduced in the Senate. Referred to Senate Commerce Committee. The Senate bill passed favorably out of Senate Commerce Committee on 12/3/18. The Senate bill passed favorably out of Budget Committee (10-0) on 6/17/2019. A Senate vote has been scheduled on 6/20/19. The bill has been passed by the Senate. Hearing for the Assembly Women and Children Committee will be held on November 18th at 10:00AM in Committee Room 9. The Assembly Women and Children Committee passed the bill out of committee on 11/18/2019. Bill will be considered in Assembly Appropriations Committee on 12/12/2019. The State Legislature passed legislation (A3150/S2133) on 12/16/2019. It now goes to the Governor for signature. The Governor signed the legislation on 1/13/2020.
  • Link to Bills: S 2133; A 3150
  • Read RESOLVE’s letters of support for S 2133 and A 3150.
  • Cruz-Pérez, Ruiz Bill Requiring Health Benefits Coverage for Fertility Preservation Passes Senate, InsideNJ, June 20, 2019

Bill Number: A 4605

Added: February 1, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Requires DOH to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 10/18/2018 Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee. 1/17/2019 Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee.
  • Link to Bill: A 4605;

Bill Number: A 4811

Added: December 13, 2018

  • Description of Bill:  Requires health benefits coverage for intrauterine insemination.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill. This is a carryover bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 12/10/2018 introduced. Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
  • Link to Bill: A 4811;

New York

Bill Number: A 8173

Added: October 30, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Requires the promulgation of regulations relating to the commercial trade of human reproductive processes involving semen donation; limits the number of live births from a single semen donor; requires the commissioner to promulgate the regulations no later than six months after the act takes effect.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 6/5/2019 referred to Assembly Health Committee.
  • Link to Bill: A 8173;

Bill Number: A 8562

Added: September 18, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Creates a private right of action for fertility fraud and adds a health care practitioner using human reproductive material from a donor knowing or reasonably should have known that such patient had not expressly consented to such use, to the crime of aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 9/13/2019 referred to Codes Committee.
  • Link to Bill: A 8562;

Bill Number: S 6720

Added: September 18, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Establishes the crime of fertility fraud as an assisted reproduction procedure using the health care provider’s own spermatozoon or ovum or using human reproductive material without the donor’s consent.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 9/16/2019 referred to Rules Committee.
  • Link to Bill: S 6720;

Bill Numbers: A1071/S2071A

Bill Name: Child Parent Security Act
Updated: June 12, 2019

Bill Number: A7478A/S6403

Updated: January 16, 2020

  • Description of Bill: Relates to insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization and other fertility preservation treatments.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Assembly bill referred to Insurance Committee on 5/6/2019. Currently on Assembly Insurance Committee Agenda. Referred to the Assembly Codes committee on 5/30/2019. Currently on Assembly Codes Committee Agenda. Referred to Ways and Means Committee on 6/4/19. S 6403 was introduced and referred to Senate Rules Committee on 6/7/19. A7478A was introduced and referred to Assembly Ways and Means on 1/08/2020. S6403 was introduced and referred to Senate Insurance Committee on 1/08/2020.
  • Link to Bills: A 7478A; S 6403;
  • Action Needed: Send these letters now to the Assembly Ways and Means Committe and the Senate Rules Committee. If a Committee member is your individual lawmaker, make sure you identify yourself as a constituent of that Committee member. If a Committee member is your individual lawmaker, make sure you identify yourself as a constituent of that Committee member.
  • Read Simotas for Inclusion of In-Vitro in Ind. & Small Group Market Health Insurance Plans, The National Herald, May 12, 2019

Bill Number: A 7204 /S 5032

Updated: May 2, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Relates to embryo and pre-embryo banks and storage facilities.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Assembly bill referred to Health Committee on 4/12/2019. Senate bill referred to Health Committee on 4/3/19.
  • Link to Bills: A 7204; S 5302;

Bill Number: AB 7272

Added: April 23, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Legalizes gestational carrier agreements; relates to the status of a child born pursuant to a gestational carrier agreement and makes conforming changes; relates to inheritance by a child born pursuant to a gestational carrier agreement; relates to the residency of a child born pursuant to a gestational carrier agreement; relates to certain liability coverage; relates to the content of birth certificates.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Assembly bill referred to Judiciary Committee on 4/18/2019.
  • Link to Bills: AB 7272;

Bill Numbers: S 719/A 2817

Bill Name: The Fair Access to Fertility Treatment Act (FAFTA)
Updated: April 4, 2019

Bill Number: J 380

Updated: February 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 21-27, 2019, as Infertility Awareness Week in the State of New York.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 2/6/2019 referred to Senate Finance Committee. Bill passed on 2/12/19.
  • Link to Bill: J380;

Bill Number: S 847/A 4316

Updated: February 5, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Requires health insurance coverage of infertility to be provided to insureds with same sex partners on the same basis as that provided to insureds with a partner of the opposite sex.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/9/2019 Senate bill referred to Insurance Committee. 2/4/2019 Assembly bill referred to Insurance Committee.
  • Link to Bills: S 847; A 4306;

Bill Number: S 1493/A 4506

Updated: January 16, 2020

  • Description of Bill: Provides that policies issued in this state that provide coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care shall provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services when a necessary cancer treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility to a covered person.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 2/4/2019 referred to Assembly Insurance Committee. Also referred to Senate Insurance Committee. Introduced and referred to Senate Insurance Committee on 1/08/2020. 
  • Link to Bill: A4506; S1493;

Bill Number: S 2589

Added: January 31, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Enacts provisions relating to the execution of written forms, prior to assisted reproductive technology services, for consent and directives for the transfer, use, and disposition of cryopreserved embryos or gametes, and provisions relating to notice prior to the implementation of the terms of such advance directives.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: 1/28/2019 referred to Judiciary Committee.
  • Link to Bill: S 2589;

North Dakota

Bill Number: SB 2233

Updated April 24, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 26.1-36 and a new section to chapter 54-52.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to health insurance coverage for infertility treatment; and to provide for application.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Bill introduced to Senate on January 11 and submitted to the Senate Industry, Business, Labor Committee. Committee bill hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 10:30AM. Committee voted do not pass but bill will still go to the floor for a vote. Bill did not pass on 2/15/10.
  • Link to Bill: SB 2233;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Letter of Support.
  • Read Bill mandating insurance coverage of infertility treatment fails in ND Senate, The Jamestown Sun, February 15, 2019
  • Read Ashley Nurse Raises Awareness for Infertility Issues, kfyrtv.com, April 24, 2019
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Oklahoma

Bill Number: HB 2468

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  This bill creates the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Second Reading referred to Rules Committee on 2/6/2019. Signed by governor 05/23/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 2468;

Bill Number: SB 139

Added: January 16, 2020

  • Description of Bill:  Any health benefit plan that is offered, issued or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2019, that provides pregnancy- related benefits for individuals covered under the plan, pursuant to Section 6060.3 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall provide coverage for services and benefits on an expense incurred, service, or prepaid basis for outpatient expenses that arise from in vitro fertilization procedures. Benefits for in vitro fertilization procedures required under this section must be provided to the same extent as benefits provided for other pregnancy-related procedures under the plan.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Second Reading referred to Retirement and Insurance Committee on 2/5/2019. Coauthored by Representative Townley (principal House author) on 2/28/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 139;

Bill Number: SB 195

Bill Name: Oklahoma Personhood Act
Added: January 28, 2019

  • Description of Bill: The Oklahoma Legislature finds that life of each human being begins at conception; unborn children have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being; and the natural parents of unborn children have protectable interests in the life, health, and well-being of their unborn child.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee on 2/5/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 195
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Oregon

Bill Number: SB 749

Updated: May 9, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Requires health benefit plans to cover fertility and reproductive endocrinology services.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Bill is in Senate Committee On Health Care.
  • Link to Bill: SB 749;

Bill Number: SB 242

Added: May 2, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Requires health benefit plan, other than employer-sponsored plan, that covers cost of pregnancy care and childbirth to cover cost of pregnancy care and childbirth for enrollee who is surrogate.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Bill is in Joint Committee On Ways and Means
  • Link to Bill: SB 242;

Bill Number: SB 911

Added: May 2, 2019

  • Description of Bill: Requires health benefit plans, state medical assistance program, Public Employees’ Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to pay for standard fertility preservation services for covered individual who will undergo medical treatment that is likely to result in iatrogenic infertility.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Hearing in Senate Health 3/11. Passed favorably. Sent to Joint Committee on Ways & Means.
  • Link to Bill: SB 911;

Pennsylvania

Bill Number: HB 1890

Added: December 10, 2019

  • Description of Bill: An Act providing for the final disposition of fetal remains; and imposing penalties.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Bill passed the House on Nov. 18, 2019. Referred to Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Nov. 22, 2019
  • Link to Bill: HB 1890
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Bill Number: SB 139

Added: January 31, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, adding provisions relating to establishment of parent-child relationship for certain individuals; providing for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for registry of paternity, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Referred to House Judiciary Committee on 1/28/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 139;

Rhode Island

Bill Number: H 6252

Added: July 10, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  It’s a bill to create a special leg commission to establish a RI Parentage Act. The purpose of said commission shall be to review the current “Uniform Law on Paternity” and provide recommendations for revisions that would construct and establish a comprehensive “Rhode Island Parentage Act” that stipulates procedures for establishing parentage including, but not limited to, a legal bond between child and parent within various family relationships, and for children conceived through various methods including, but not limited to, genetic testing, surrogacy agreements and assisted reproduction.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: House read and passed on 6/25/2019.
  • Link to Bill: H 6252;
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South Carolina

Bill Number: H 3289/S 485

Bill Name: “The Personhood Act of South Carolina”
Updated: February 14, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This bill establishes “that the right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization and that the rights of due process and equal protection, guaranteed by … the constitution of this state, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human being.”
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on 1/8/19. The Senate bill was introduced and referred to Senate Judiciary Committee on 2/6/19.
  • Link to Bill: H 3289; S 485;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.
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Bill Number: H 3920

Bill Name: “The Personhood Act of South Carolina”
Added: February 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill: This bill establishes “that the right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization and that the rights of due process and equal protection, guaranteed by … the constitution of this state, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human being.”
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this Bill
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on 2/7/19.
  • Link to Bill: H 3920;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Tennessee

Bill Number: HB 836 / SB 1304

Updated: May 2, 2019

  • Description of Bill: As introduced, prohibits a private licensed child-placing agency from being required to perform, assist, consent to, refer, or participate in any child placement for foster care or adoption that would violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions. – Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on 2/7/2019 and referred to the Children & Families Subcommittee on 3/12/2019. The Senate bill was introduced and referred to Senate Judiciary Committee on 2/11/19. Bill has been withdrawn until next year.
  • Link to Bill: HB 836;  SB 1304;

Texas

Bill Number: SB 959/HB 2682

Updated: April 23, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Relating to health benefit coverage for certain fertility preservation services under certain health benefit plans.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: SB 959 was filed on 2/21/2019. The senate bill has been referred to the Senate Business and Commerce Committee. HB 2682 was filed on 2/27/2019 and referred to the House Insurance Committee. Committee hearing is scheduled on 4/9/19. The Texas House Insurance Committee unanimously passed HB2682. The house bill now goes to Calendars Committee to determine when it goes to the floor for a vote. HB 2682 was not placed on the House Calendar so the bill will not advance this year.
  • Link to Bill: SB 959; HB 2682;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Letter of Support
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Bill Number: SB 1259

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Passed in the Senate. Sent to the House for review. Signed by governor 06/04/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 1259;
  • Read Fertility fraud is real. The Texas Senate approved a bill to make it a crime, Dallas News, April 11, 2019

Bill Number: HB 1478

Added: February 11, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Relating to a prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions and certain employment agreements limiting reproductive decisions.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Filed on 2/7/2019
  • Link to Bill: HB 1478;

Vermont

Bill Number: H 278

Updated: November 4, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  An act relating to acknowledgment or denial of parentage
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Passed in the House on 3/15/2019. Sent to the Senate for review on 3/20/19. Read first time in the Senate and referred to Committee on Judiciary on 03/20/2019. Senate approved the bill on May 16, 2019. Governor signed bill into law on May 16, 2019.
  • Link to Bill: H 278;

Virginia

Bill Number: HB 1979

Updated: June 26, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Amends the assisted conception statute to provide gender-neutral terminology. The bill allows an unmarried individual to be an intended parent, paralleling the ability of an unmarried individual to adopt under the adoption statutes. The bill further allows for the use of an embryo owned by an intended parent in a surrogacy arrangement. The bill contains technical amendments.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE supports this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Referred to House Committee for Courts of Justice on 1/7/2019. 2/5/2019 House voted to pass bill. Sent to the Senate and referred to Committee for Courts of Justice on 2/6/2019. 02/13/19 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (9-Y 6-N). Passed the Senate on 2/19/19. Passed the House on 2/20/19. Bill sent to Governor on 3/4/19. Governor signed the bill into law on 3/14/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1979;

Bill Number: SB 1544

Added: January 28, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Assisted conception; parentage presumption. Makes the relevant law regarding children born as a result of assisted conception applicable to both same-sex and opposite-sex married couples. The bill also provides that a person is presumed to be the parent of a child if such person is married to the mother at the time of the child’s birth or was married to the mother within 300 days of the child’s birth.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Referred to Senate Committees on Education and Health and Courts of Justice on 1/17/2019.
  • Link to Bill: HB 1979;

Washington

Bill Number: SB 5333

Updated: November 13, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  Making changes related to the uniform parentage act for access to court records, compliance with regulations of the food and drug administration, enacting a repealed section of chapter 26.26 RCW, and correcting citations and terminology.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE is reviewing this bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Law & Justice on 1/24/19. Signed by governor 07/28/2019.
  • Link to Bill: SB 5333;

West Virginia

Resolution Number: HJR 4

Resolution Name: Life Begins at Conception Amendment
Added: January 23, 2019

  • Description of Resolution:  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia amending Article III thereof, by adding thereto a new section, designated section 23 relating to defining the word “person” or “persons,” as those terms are used in Article III of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Resolution: RESOLVE opposes Resolution.
  • Current status of the Resolution in the legislative process: Resolution introduced to House on January 9, 2019 and sent to the House Judiciary Committee.
  • Link to Resolution: HJR 4;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.

Bill Number: HB 2074

Bill Name: Life at Conception Act of 2019
Added: January 14, 2019

  • Description of Bill:  To implement equal protection for the right to life of each born and preborn human person, and pursuant to the duty and authority of the legislative body, including the power under section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States and Article VI of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia to make necessary and proper laws and the power under section five of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, we hereby declare that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States and the State of West Virginia is vested in each human being.
  • Does RESOLVE support or oppose this Bill: RESOLVE opposes bill.
  • Current status of the Bill in the legislative process: Bill introduced to House on January 9, 2019 and sent to the House Judiciary Committee.
  • Link to Bill: HB 2074;
  • Read RESOLVE’s Policy on Personhood Legislation.