AB 1130

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.