Eliminating Abortion from Health Insurance
For State Employees

S.B. 366 of 1999
Sec. 215
Sponsor: Sen. David Jaye

Effective Date: For the Fiscal Year ending September 30, 2000

H.B. 5595 of 1998
Sec. 210
Sponsor: Rep. Bill Bobier

Effective Date: For the Fiscal Year ending September 30, 1999

This legislation requires that state employees or their dependents wanting coverage for elective abortions would have to individually request that coverage and must pay for it with a separate premium (allowing only a “life of the mother” exception).

Currently, almost all health insurance plans include coverage for elective abortion as a standard benefit. Thus, for pro-life individuals and employers who purchase or contribute toward their health plan coverage, their premiums are used to pay for abortions obtained by other members of the plan. Equally problematic is the ability of pro-life individuals and employers to find benefit plans that do not have abortion as a covered benefit.

This language only applies to appropriations for the respective fiscal year.

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