File #: Int 0840-2026    Version: * Name: Requiring health insurance coverage for pre-implantation testing for city employees.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 4/16/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring health insurance coverage for pre-implantation testing for city employees
Sponsors: Kayla Santosuosso , Lincoln Restler, Julie Won
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the City to offer health insurance to City employees who are not part of a bargaining unit that includes coverage for pre-implantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) which is performed during in vitro fertilization (IVF) to check embryos for abnormalities in the number of chromosomes.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 840, 2. Int. No. 840, 3. Memorandum in Support, 4. April 16, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 840

 

By Council Members Santosuosso, Restler and Won

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring health insurance coverage for pre-implantation testing for city employees

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 12 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 12-126.7 to read as follows:

§ 12-126.7 Health benefit for city employees. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

“Assisted reproductive technology service.” The term “assisted reproductive technology service” has the same meaning as set forth in section 69-11.1 of title 10 of the New York codes, rules and regulations, regarding surrogacy programs and assisted reproduction service providers, or a successor provision.

“City employee.” The term “city employee” means a person who (i) is employed by a department or agency of the city; (ii) is paid out of the city treasury; and (iii) is employed under terms prescribing a work week regularly consisting of twenty or more hours during the fiscal year.

“Pre-implantation testing.” The term “pre-implantation testing” means pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos for aneuploidy to check embryos for abnormalities in the number of chromosomes during an assisted reproductive technology service.

b. Coverage. The city shall offer health insurance coverage for pre-implantation testing to city employees.

c. Collective bargaining. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any city employee subject to a collective bargaining agreement.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 1 year after it becomes law.

 

 

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