New York Assembly Bill A02686 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2686 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to coverage for iatrogenic fertility preservation services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "fertility 2 protection act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law is 4 amended by adding a new paragraph (nn) to read as follows: 5 (nn) standard fertility preservation services when a medical treatment 6 may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility to a recipient. 7 For the purposes of this paragraph, "iatrogenic infertility" means an 8 impairment of fertility by surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or other 9 medical treatment affecting reproductive organs or processes. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04169-01-5