This chart includes policy and legislative opportunities in various states.
| Year Introduced | State | Issue | Type (Letter, Regulation Comments, Legislation) | Bill Number & Title | Description | Position Statements & Coalition and Triage Cancer Letter of Support | Status | Advocacy Opportunity | |||
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| 2026 | California | Genetics | Legislation | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1798 | AB-1798 Genetic testing for life and disability insurance | This bill would would prohibit a life or disability insurer in California from canceling, limiting, or denying coverage based on a test for the presence of a genetic characteristic, and prohibit a life or disability insurer from requiring, requesting, or soliciting genetic information, using genetic test results, or considering a person’s decisions or actions relating to genetic testing in any manner for an insurance purpose. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Triage-Cancer-AB1798-Letter-of-Support.pdf | Scheduled for California Senate Committee on Appropriations (8/13/2026) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.votervoice.net/FORCE/campaigns/138258/respond |
| 2026 | Delaware | Biomarker Testing | Legislation | https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?legislationId=143060 | SS1 for SB120 - An Act to amend the Delaware code ... relating to health insurance | This bill would require that state-regulated health insurance plans provide coverage for biomarker testing, when the test is supported by medical and scientific evidence. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Letter-to-DE-Governor-Biomarker-Coverage.pdf | Passed by House and Senate (7/1/2026); Awaiting governor's signature | Contact the governor to ask him to sign this bill into law | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
| 2026 | Maryland | Biomarker Testing | Proposed Rule/Regulations | https://health.maryland.gov/mmcp/Documents/Biomarkers%20%26%20Biomarker%20Testing-%20Clinical%20Criteria%20(2.13.2026).pdf | Maryland Medicaid Clinical Criteria for Biomarkers & Biomarker Testing | Letter to the director of the Maryland Medicaid program, asking to revise the clinical criteria required for biomarker testing coverage, as the program's requirements are more strict than what state law provided for. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Coalition-comments-MD-Medicaid-biomarker-policy.pdf | Regulatory interpretation implemented | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
| 2025 | North Carolina | Biomarker Testing | Legislation | https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H567 | NC H567 - Ensure Access to Biomarker Testing | This bill would require health benefit plans to provide coverage for biomarker testing for the purposes of diagnosis, treatment, appropriate care management, or ongoing monitoring of an insured's disease or condition when the testing is supported by medical and scientific evidence, and prohibit plans from charging higher premiums based on results of biomarker testing. | Support | Passed First Reading and Referred to Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate (5/7/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | North Carolina | Fertility Preservation | Legislation | https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2025/H744 | H 744 - Fertility Preservation Pilot Program | This bill would establish a Fertility Preservation Pilot Program to assist individuals whose future fertility is in jeopardy as a result of a cancer diagnosis or cancer treatment with obtaining any combination of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intrauterine insemination (IUI) services; fertility preservation services; or fertility storage services, as appropriate. | Support | Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations (4/3/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | North Carolina | Fertility Preservation | Legislation | https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2025/hb%20635 | H 635 - Increase Access to Fertility Treatment | This bill would required large insured group health plans to provide coverage for fertility diagnostic care, fertility treatment, and fertility preservation services. | Support | Referred to House Committee on Health (Serial Referral To Finance Stricken 4/17/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Ohio | Access to Care | Legislation | https://ohiohouse.gov/legislation/136/hb33 | OH HB33 - Require insurance coverage for certain prostate cancer screening | This bill would require health insurers to cover preventivescreenings for certain men at high-risk fordeveloping prostate cancer. | Support | Held third hearing in Insurance Committee (11/18/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Ohio | Biomarker Testing | Legislation | https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb8 | OH HB8 - Require health plan and Medicaid coverage of biomarker testing | This bill would require health benefit plans to cover biomarker testing ordered and deemed medically necessary by the qualified treating health care provider for diagnosis, treatment, or ongoing monitoring of a disease or condition. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/OH-Biomarker-Testing-Sign-on-Letter_3.3.26.pdf | Passed favorably out of Health Committee (2/18/2026) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ |
| 2025 | Pennsylvania | Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb281 | PA HB281 - An Act ... providing for coverage for prostate cancer screening. | This bill would require insurance coverage for prostate cancer screenings for individuals identified as being at average or high risk for prostate cancer. | Support | Referred to Insurance Committee (1/22/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Pennsylvania | Fertility Preservation | Legislation | https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb922 | HB 922 - An Act ... providing for fertility preservation coverage. | This bill would require insurance coverage of fertility preservation for individuals less than 45 years of age who are at risk of iatrogenic infertility. | Support | Referred to Insurance Committee (3/17/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2026 | Pennsylvania | Fertility Preservation | Legislation | https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb2649 | HB 2649 / SB 1315 - An act ... providing for coverage for certain fertility preservation services | This bill would require insurance coverage of fertility preservation for individuals who may experience iatrogenic infertility from cancer treatments, including at least three years of storage at an in-network facility. | Support | Re-committed to House Appropriations (7/1/2026); Referred to Senate Banking & Insurance (5/21/2026) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.thechickmission.org/pennsylvania-advocacy/ |