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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 797 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 5, United States Code, to protect and expand access to |
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| 6 | 6 | | fertility treatment under the health insurance program carried out under |
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| 7 | 7 | | chapter 89 of that title, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY27, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. D |
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| 11 | 11 | | UCKWORTH(for herself, Mr. WELCH, Ms. WARREN, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | M |
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| 13 | 13 | | ERKLEY, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. COONS, and Mr. KAINE) introduced the fol- |
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| 14 | 14 | | lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on |
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| 15 | 15 | | Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To amend title 5, United States Code, to protect and expand |
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| 18 | 18 | | access to fertility treatment under the health insurance |
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| 19 | 19 | | program carried out under chapter 89 of that title, and |
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| 20 | 20 | | for other purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Family Building 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | FEHB Fairness Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. FERTILITY TREATMENT BENEFITS. 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | NGENERAL.—Section 8904 of title 5, United 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | States Code, is amended— 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | the following: 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(G) Fertility treatment benefits.’’; and 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (B) in paragraph (2)— 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (i) by redesignating subparagraph (F) 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | as subparagraph (G); and 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (ii) by inserting after subparagraph 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (E) the following: 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(F) Fertility treatment benefits.’’; and 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(c) In this section, the term ‘fertility treatment’ in-15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | cludes the following: 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(1) Preservation of human oocytes, sperm, or 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | embryos for later reproductive use. 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(2) Artificial insemination, including 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | intravaginal insemination, intracervical insemination, 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | and intrauterine insemination. 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(3) Assisted reproductive technology, including 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | in vitro fertilization and other treatments or proce-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | dures in which reproductive genetic material, such as 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | oocytes, sperm, fertilized eggs, and embryos, are 25 |
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| 55 | 55 | | handled, when clinically appropriate. 26 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(4) Genetic testing of embryos. 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ‘‘(5) Medications prescribed or obtained over- 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | the-counter, as indicated for fertility. 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ‘‘(6) Gamete donation. 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(7) Such other information, referrals, treat-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ments, procedures, medications, laboratory services, 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | technologies, and services relating to fertility as the 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Director of the Office of Personnel Management, in 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | coordination with the Secretary of Health and 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Human Services, determines appropriate.’’. 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (b) E |
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| 70 | 70 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | this section shall take effect on the date that is 1 year 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | after the date of enactment of this Act. 13 |
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