Insurance and Real Estate Committee File No. Currently, insurance policies do not have to include coverage for prescription contraceptives.
Some insurance companies do offer contraceptive riders to their customers.
However, the vast majority of women pay for their prescriptions out of their own pocket, which is very costly. This legislation would mandate that an insurance policy would have to include coverage for the cost of prescription birth control. However, there is a clause in the bill that would allow religious affiliated organizations to be included under the religious employer exemption. He explained that the coverage of prescription birth control is less than the amount that is expended on unintended pregnancies. Other forms of non-prescriptive birth control are not as effective as prescription birth control.