2025 New Hampshire Advocacy Efforts
Our priorities for the 2025-26 Legislative Session:
Improve maternal health outcomes
An Act Providing Maternal Depression Screening for New Mothers, Increasing Access to Health Care Services for New Mothers, and Relative to Job Protection Within the Employer-Sponsored New Hampshire Paid Family and Medical Leave Plan (SB246)
Prime Sponsor: Sen. Denise Ricciardi
In New Hampshire, the leading cause of maternal mortality is associated with behavioral health, while these mothers face significant gaps within maternal health and wellness. This bill, nicknamed Momnibus 2.0, expands on the 2023 Momnibus bill, emphasizing topics such as depression and anxiety, strengthening maternal health care services and postpartum support, lowering costs for working families, and supporting moms after they give birth.
Affirm abortion as health care
An Act Relative to Access to Abortion Care (SB260)
Prime Sponsor: Sen. Debra Altschiller
Abortion rights are critical for safeguarding reproductive health and freedom. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn the constitutional rights to abortion, the protection of these rights has become even more prevalent. This bill protects a New Hampshire individual’s right to an abortion before 24 weeks gestation.
Recognizing Abortion as a Critical Component of Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care (HCR7)
Prime Sponsor: Rep. Alexis Simpson
This resolution recognizes abortion as critical in protecting and supporting women’s health, autonomy, and well-being, as well as acknowledges that abortion is an essential part of reproductive health care.
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Current New Hampshire Fertility Insurance Law
New Hampshire has a Fertility Insurance Law. It passed in August 2019 and took effect on January 1, 2020.
Summary
RSA 417-G provides group insurance coverage for:
- Infertility diagnostics
- Fertility treatment
- Fertility preservation
Legal Definition of Infertility
The Act defines infertility as “a disease, caused by an illness, injury, underlying disease, or condition, where an individual’s ability to become pregnant or to carry a pregnancy to live birth is impaired, or where an individual’s ability to cause pregnancy and live birth in the individual’s partner is impaired”.
Limits
Coverage is not required for experimental fertility procedures, non-medical costs related to third-party reproduction, and reversal of voluntary sterilization. Any limitations on coverage shall be based on clinical guidelines and the enrollee’s medical history, NOT based on arbitrary factors including, but not limited to, number of attempts, dollar amount, or age.
Exemptions
Individual plans and employers who self-insured are not included in the New Hampshire insurance mandate.
For more information about the New Hampshire Statute, please consult RSA 417-G.