Enacts provisions relating to insurance coverage of self-administered hormonal contraceptives

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Enacts provisions relating to insurance coverage of self-administered hormonal contraceptives

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 929 - Under this act, current law requiring certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraceptives lasting up to 90 days, or 180 days for generic self-administered hormonal contraceptives, shall no longer be in effect after December 31, 2026.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 929 - Under this act, current law requiring certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraceptives lasting up to 90 days, or 180 days for generic self-administered hormonal contraceptives, shall no longer be in effect after December 31, 2026.
• Instead, certain health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027, shall be required to cover a supply of self-administered hormonal contraceptives, including brand-name and generic contraceptives, intended to last up to one year.
• This act is substantially similar to provisions in the truly agreed to and finally passed SS/SCS/HCS/HB 2372 (2026), the truly agreed to and finally passed CCS/SS/HCS/HB 2596 (2026), and HB 2370 (2026), and similar to a provision in SCS/SB 178 (2025), HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), HCS/SB 94 (2025), the perfected HCS/HB 2413 (2024), SB 821 (2024), and SB 1321 (2024).
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SB 929 - Under this act, current law requiring certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraceptives lasting up to 90 days, or 180 days for generic self-administered hormonal contraceptives, shall no longer be in effect after December 31, 2026. Instead, certain health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027, shall be required to cover a supply of self-administered hormonal contraceptives, including brand-name and generic contraceptives, intended to last up to one year.

This act is substantially similar to provisions in the truly agreed to and finally passed SS/SCS/HCS/HB 2372 (2026), the truly agreed to and finally passed CCS/SS/HCS/HB 2596 (2026), and HB 2370 (2026), and similar to a provision in SCS/SB 178 (2025), HCS/SS/SB 7 (2025), HCS/SB 94 (2025), the perfected HCS/HB 2413 (2024), SB 821 (2024), and SB 1321 (2024).
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Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 929
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LEWIS.
4575S.02I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 376.1240, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
insurance coverage of self-administered hormonal contraceptives.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 376.1240, RSMo, is repealed and one 1
new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 2
376.1240, to read as follows:3
376.1240. 1. For purposes of this section, terms 1
shall have the same meanings as ascribed to them in section 2
376.1350, and the term "self-administered hormonal 3
contraceptive" shall mean a drug that is composed of one or 4
more hormones and that is approved by the Food and Drug 5
Administration to prevent pregnancy, excluding emergency 6
contraception. Nothing in this section shall be construed 7
to apply to medications approved by the Food and Drug 8
Administration to terminate an existing pregnancy. 9
2. (1) Any health benefit plan delivered, issued for 10
delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after 11
January 1, 2026, that provides coverage for self- 12
administered hormonal contraceptives shall provide coverage 13
to reimburse a health care provider or dispensing entity for 14
the dispensing of a supply of self-administered hormonal 15
contraceptives intended to last up to ninety days, or 16
intended to last up to one hundred eighty days for generic 17
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self-administered hormonal contraceptives. The provisions 18
of this section shall no longer be in effect after December 19
31, 2026. 20
(2) Any health benefit plan delivered, issued for 21
delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after 22
January 1, 2027, that provides coverage for self- 23
administered hormonal contraceptives shall provide coverage 24
to reimburse a health care provider or dispensing entity for 25
the dispensing of a supply of self-administered hormonal 26
contraceptives, including generic and brand-name 27
contraceptives, intended to last up to one year. 28
3. The coverage required under this section shall not 29
be subject to any greater deductible or co-payment than 30
other similar health care services provided by the health 31
benefit plan. 32
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