2025 Vermont Advocacy Efforts
Our priorities for the 2025-26 Legislative Session:
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, Northern Vermont Oncology Nursing 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
*PASSED* Expedite the confirmatory adoption process for parents who conceived a child through assisted reproduction
An act relating to confirmatory adoptions (H. 98)
AllPaths Family Building is thrilled to share the news that the Confirmatory Adoption bill in Vermont, H. 98, has become law!
This statute will streamline the process of confirmatory adoption, which legally confirms the existing parent-child relationship that the child has known since birth. Parents who have planfully and lovingly grown their family through assisted reproduction do not need to follow the same complex requirements as those legally becoming a family through adoption. Reform of confirmatory adoption is particularly important to provide security and stability for LGBTQ families.
We are very grateful to the Vermont legislature, to Governor Phil Scott, and to our advocacy partners, particularly for the leadership of Family Equality and GLAD Law.
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Vermont Fertility Advocacy Day!
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