2025 Vermont Advocacy Efforts

Our priorities for the 2025-26 Legislative Session:

 
Vermont unfortunately does not have a fertility insurance Law…YET.
 
Require health insurance plans and VT Medicaid to cover for fertility-related services

An act relating to health insurance and Medicaid coverage for fertility care (H.302)

Lead Sponsor: Rep. Ashley Bartley

H.302 would require private and public insurance in Vermont to provide coverage for fertility care.

Current Status: Bill introduced

Supporting Organizations: Alliance for Fertility Preservation, AllPaths Family Building, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Center for Reproductive Rights, Fertility Within Reach, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Family Equality, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, New England Fertility Society, Northeastern Reproductive Medicine, Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, and RESOLVE: the National Infertility Association

Expand access to fertility treatment and gender-affirming care

An act relating to coverage for fertility treatment and gender-affirming health care services (H.55)

Lead Sponsor: Rep. Troy Headrick

Current Status: Referred to Committee on Health Care
Bill Status H.55

Expedite the confirmatory adoption process for parents who conceived a child through assisted reproduction

An act relating to confirmatory adoptions (H. 98)

Lead Sponsor: Rep. Barbara Rachelson

Current Status: Passed House, moves to the Senate
Bill Status H.98

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