HB5295 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB103 38679 RPS 68816 b

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5295

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Laura Faver Dias

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

215 ILCS 5/356z.56

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in this State shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormone therapy treatment to treat menopause (instead of to treat menopause that has been induced by a hysterectomy). Effective January 1, 2026.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by changing Section 356z.56 as follows:

(215 ILCS 5/356z.56)

Sec. 356z.56. Coverage for hormone therapy to treat menopause. A group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in this State on or after January 1, 2024 shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormone therapy treatment to treat menopause that has been induced by a hysterectomy.

(Source: P.A. 102-804, eff. 1-1-23; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2026.