Bill Text: NY S02229 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the definition of "infertility" to include same sex couples.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S02229 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02229-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2229 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed 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: 1 Section 1. Item (I) of clause (v) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph 6 2 of subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by 3 section 1 of part L of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended to 4 read as follows: 5 (I) For the purposes of this paragraph, "infertility" means a disease 6 or condition characterized by the incapacity to impregnate another 7 person or to conceive, defined by the failure to establish a clinical 8 pregnancy after twelve months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse 9 or therapeutic donor insemination, or after six months of regular, 10 unprotected sexual intercourse or therapeutic donor insemination for a 11 female thirty-five years of age or older, or be in a same-sex relation- 12 ship. Earlier evaluation and treatment may be warranted based on an 13 individual's medical history or physical findings. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05975-01-1
