LRBs0328/1
TJD:amn&kjf
2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO SENATE BILL 238
February 11, 2016 - Offered by Representatives Shankland, Barca, Hesselbein,
Doyle, C. Taylor, Subeck, Stuck, Brostoff, Hintz, Meyers, Spreitzer,
Ohnstad, Pope, Considine, Billings, Sargent, Zepnick, Bowen, Genrich,
Riemer, Young and Wachs.
SB238-ASA1,1,2
1An Act to create 632.895 (17) (b) 3. of the statutes;
relating to: requiring
2coverage of dispensing of an extended supply of contraceptives.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This substitute amendment requires certain disability insurance policies, also
known as health insurance policies, and self-insured governmental and school
district health plans to cover a dispensing of contraceptives that is intended to last
for three months for the first dispensing and a dispensing of contraceptives that is
intended to last for 12 months for subsequent dispensings of that contraceptive.
Contraceptives are drugs or devices approved by the federal Food and Drug
Administration to prevent pregnancy. Under current law, those policies and plans
must cover the cost of contraceptives prescribed by a health care provider and of
services that are necessary to prescribe, administer, maintain, or remove the
contraceptive. The coverage requirement under the substitute amendment does not
apply to a dispensing of a contraceptive that expires or becomes ineffective in less
than 12 months.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB238-ASA1,1
3Section
1. 632.895 (17) (b) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
SB238-ASA1,2,8
1632.895
(17) (b) 3. A dispensing of contraceptives under subd. 1. that is
2intended to last for a 3-month period for the first dispensing of the contraceptive to
3an insured and a dispensing of contraceptives that is intended to last for a 12-month
4period for subsequent dispensings of the same contraceptive to the insured,
5regardless of whether the insured was insured under that policy or plan at the time
6of the first dispensing. This subdivision does not apply to a dispensing of a
7contraceptive that expires or becomes ineffective in less than 12 months from the
8date of dispensing.
