Bill > H4930

This bill expands protections for reproductive rights and gender-affirming health care services in Massachusetts. Key provisions include: - Defining "reproductive health care services" and "gender-affirming health care services" and establishing them as legally protected rights in the state. - Allowing individuals engaged in the provision, facilitation, or promotion of these legally protected activities to apply to have a designated address with the Secretary of State. - Prohibiting abusive litigation in other states from interfering with legally protected health care activities that occur in Massachusetts. - Requiring insurance coverage for abortion and abortion-related care with no cost-sharing, and prohibiting restrictions or delays in this coverage. - Protecting healthcare providers, pharmacists, nurses, and other professionals from discipline or adverse action for providing these legally protected health care services in Massachusetts, even if the services may have been unlawful in another state. - Limiting cooperation by Massachusetts law enforcement with out-of-state investigations or actions related to these legally protected health care activities. - Exempting certain religious employers from having to cover abortion or abortion-related care in their health plans. Overall, this bill aims to solidify and expand legal protections for reproductive rights and gender-affirming care in Massachusetts, even in the face of potential restrictions or actions in other states.

House Committee on Ways and Means (H)

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4930