Providing coverage for standard fertility preservation services for medicaid enrollees.

 S-3952.1

SENATE BILL 6202

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2026 Regular Session

By Senators Frame, Cleveland, Alvarado, Conway, Dhingra, Harris, Lovelett, Nobles, Riccelli, Saldaña, Slatter, Trudeau, Valdez, and C. Wilson

Read first time 01/16/26. Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.

AN ACT Relating to providing coverage for standard fertility preservation services for medicaid enrollees; adding a new section to chapter 74.09 RCW; and creating new sections.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that:

(a) Young Washingtonians who are diagnosed with cancer often learn, shortly before they are to begin the medical treatment needed to save their lives, that the treatment may result in infertility, leaving them only a small window of time in which to decide whether to undergo medically necessary efforts to preserve their ability to have biological families;