IVF Coverage Mandate Legislation Close to Passage in California

California legislators are nearing their goal to make the state the latest and largest to require that insurance plans cover infertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization.

Proponents contend the measure (S.B. 729) is long overdue because a 1990 state law only mandates that insurers must offer fertility services, but employers do not need to provide that coverage to workers, and IVF is excluded.

The renewed push comes as the Golden State has fallen behind more than a dozen other states that have laws mandating insurers cover IVF, even though California’s Democratic leaders cast the state as a bastion ...