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Read. Follow. Verify.Wisconsin Senate Bill 1127 Establishes Statutory Fertility Treatment Rights and Mandates Insurance Coverage
Last action · March 23, 2026: Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1Sponsors: Kelda Roys and 18 others
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill establishes statutory rights for individuals to receive fertility treatments, for providers to offer them, and for insurers to cover them, while requiring health insurance policies and self-insured governmental plans that cover obstetrics to also cover fertility treatments regardless of an infertility diagnosis. Additionally, the bill mandates that the Department of Health Services seek federal approval to provide reimbursement for these fertility treatments.
Enforcement provisions allow both the attorney general and affected individuals, entities, or health care providers to initiate civil actions for alleged violations of these established statutory rights.
- Medical Assistance is a joint federal and state program providing healthcare to individuals with limited financial resources, commonly referred to as Medicaid. context
- The bill failed to pass during the 2025-2026 legislative session pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Individuals seeking fertility treatment
Individuals gain statutory rights to receive treatments, make decisions about reproductive genetic material, and access insurance coverage regardless of an infertility diagnosis.
Health care providers
Providers receive statutory rights to deliver fertility services and are protected from penalties or reimbursement reductions by insurers for discussing or providing treatments.
Health insurance issuers
Insurers providing obstetrics coverage are mandated to cover fertility treatments under specific standards and provide written notices to enrollees.
Department of Health Services
The department is required to request federal waivers or state plan amendments to enable Medical Assistance reimbursement for fertility treatments.
Key Facts
- The bill establishes statutory rights for individuals to receive fertility treatments and make decisions regarding reproductive genetic material.
- Health care providers are granted statutory rights to provide fertility treatments and enter contractual agreements without prohibition or impediment.
- Health insurance policies and self-insured governmental plans that provide obstetrics coverage must also provide coverage for fertility treatments.
- Fertility treatment coverage must be provided regardless of whether an individual has received an infertility diagnosis.
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- Health plans are prohibited from penalizing or reducing reimbursements to health care providers who discuss or provide fertility treatments.
- The Department of Health Services must request any necessary federal waivers or state plan amendments to allow Medical Assistance reimbursement for covered fertility treatments.
- The attorney general and affected individuals or health care providers may commence civil actions to enforce rights under the bill.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an infertility diagnosis to qualify for insurance coverage under this bill?
Can the state Medical Assistance program reimburse these fertility treatments?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the Senate.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 23, 2026SenateFailed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Mar 19, 2026SenateIntroducedRead first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry
- Mar 19, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced by Senators Roys, Ratcliff, Hesselbein, Spreitzer and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Emerson, Sinicki, Miresse, Bare, Joers, Taylor, Andraca, Clancy, Neubauer, DeSmidt, Palmeri, Goodwin, Madison and Anderson
Version history
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Discoveries
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Mandated Fertility Coverage Regardless of Infertility Diagnosis
The legislation introduces a requirement that health plans cover fertility treatments regardless of whether a patient has received a formal infertility diagnosis.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy80Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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