Assembly Bill A11148

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to expanding the definition of "infertility" to include same sex couples

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A11148 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9010
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3221, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4330, S2229
2023-2024: S1967

2019-A11148 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the definition of "infertility" to include same sex couples.

2019-A11148 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11148
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hunter) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in  relation  to  including  same-sex
   couples in the definition of infertility
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Item (I) of clause (v) of subparagraph (C) of  paragraph  6
 of  subsection  (k)  of section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by
 section 1 of part L of chapter 57 of the laws of  2019,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (I)  For the purposes of this paragraph, "infertility" means a disease
 or condition characterized  by  the  incapacity  to  impregnate  another
 person  or  to  conceive, defined by the failure to establish a clinical
 pregnancy after twelve months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse
 or therapeutic donor insemination,  or  after  six  months  of  regular,
 unprotected  sexual  intercourse or therapeutic donor insemination for a
 female thirty-five years of age or older, OR BE IN A SAME-SEX  RELATION-
 SHIP.  Earlier  evaluation  and  treatment  may be warranted based on an
 individual's medical history or physical findings.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17218-03-0

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