STATE OF NEW YORK
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2229
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2021
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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
