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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 256

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Relating to: requiring coverage of the dispensing of an extended supply of contraceptives.

Birth control Insurance — Health Public employee — Group insurance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires certain health insurance policies, known in the statutes as

disability insurance policies, and self-insured governmental and school district

health plans to cover a dispensing of contraceptives that is intended to last for three

months for the first dispensing and a dispensing of contraceptives that is intended

to last for 12 months for subsequent dispensings of that contraceptive.

Contraceptives are drugs or devices approved by the federal Food and Drug

Administration to prevent pregnancy. Under current law, those policies and plans

must cover the cost of contraceptives prescribed by a health care provider and of

services that are necessary to prescribe, administer, maintain, or remove the

contraceptive. The coverage requirement under the bill does not apply to a

dispensing of a contraceptive that expires or becomes ineffective in less than 12

months.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Hong (D) , Kitchens (R) , Neubauer (D) , Pope (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tusler (R) , Vining (D) , Vruwink (D)

10 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Bewley (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Snodgrass (D)

Full history

  1. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Tusler, Anderson, Andraca, Billings, Bowen, Cabral-Guevara, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Emerson, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hong, Kitchens, Neubauer, Pope, S. Rodriguez, Shelton, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Johnson, Smith, Agard, Bewley, Erpenbach, Larson, Ringhand, Roys and L. Taylor

  2. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. May 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor