Family Building FEHB Fairness Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1670 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1670

 To require Federal employee health benefit plans to include assisted 
        reproductive treatment benefits, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2025

   Mr. Connolly (for himself, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require Federal employee health benefit plans to include assisted 
        reproductive treatment benefits, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Building FEHB Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. FERTILITY TREATMENT BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--Section 8904 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(G) Fertility treatment benefits.''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by redesignating subparagraph (F) as 
                        subparagraph (G); and
                            (ii) by inserting after subparagraph (E) 
                        the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) Fertility treatment benefits.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) In this section, the term `fertility treatment' means--
            ``(1) preservation of human oocytes, sperm, or embryos for 
        later reproductive use;
            ``(2) artificial insemination, including intravaginal 
        insemination, intracervical insemination, and intrauterine 
        insemination;
            ``(3) assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro 
        fertilization and other treatments or procedures in which 
        reproductive genetic material, such as oocytes, sperm, 
        fertilized eggs, and embryos, are handled, when clinically 
        appropriate;
            ``(4) genetic testing of embryos;
            ``(5) medications prescribed or obtained over-the-counter, 
        as indicated for fertility;
            ``(6) gamete donation; and
            ``(7) such other information, referrals, treatments, 
        procedures, medications, laboratory services, technologies, and 
        services relating to fertility as the Director of the Office of 
        Personnel Management, in coordination with the Secretary of 
        Health and Human Services, determines appropriate.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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