Requires health benefits coverage for family planning and reproductive health care services, including early infancy care, without cost sharing.
This bill requires most health insurance plans in New Jersey, including Medicaid and state employee plans, to cover specific family planning and reproductive health services without deductibles, copays, or coinsurance. It explicitly includes abortion (both aspiration and medication methods), emergency services for mothers/newborns, family planning counseling, genetic testing, pre/postpartum hospital care, and well-baby care. Childbirth itself is excluded from the required coverage. Religious employers may opt out under existing law, and exemptions for federal funding concerns are permitted but limited to the minimum necessary.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2024
Committee Review
Sep 2024
General Assembly Passage
Jun 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jun 25, 2024
Last action Sep 19, 2024
Floor votes · General Assembly Jun 28, 2024
How they voted
51–22
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 80
Jun 28, 2024
D
Democratic52
96% Yea
R
Republican28
78% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Sep 19, 2024
Committee
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee
upper
Jun 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (51-22-1)
lower
Jun 26, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
lower
Jun 25, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Budget Committee
lower
2 primary · 6 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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