[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2828 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2828

 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

                             April 25, 2023

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

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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. ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE 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) Assisted reproductive treatment benefits.''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
                following new subparagraph:
                    ``(G) Assisted reproductive treatment benefits.''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Assisted Reproductive Treatment Defined.--In this section, 
the term `assisted reproductive treatment' means any treatment or 
procedure facilitating reproduction that includes the handling of human 
oocytes, embryos, or sperm, including the following:
            ``(1) Assisted reproduction, including intravaginal 
        insemination, intracervical insemination and intrauterine 
        insemination.
            ``(2) In vitro fertilization.
            ``(3) Preservation of human oocytes, embryos, or sperm for 
        later reproductive use.
            ``(4) Such other treatments, procedures, medications, 
        laboratory services, and technologies facilitating reproduction 
        as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of 
        Personnel Management.''.
    (b) Implementation Timing.--The amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect one year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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