S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
November 6, 2020
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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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