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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| 2025 | Alabama | Access to Care | Legislation | https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search?tab=1&search=sb190 | AL SB.190 - An act relating to insurance | This bill would require health insurance plans to cover screening of both younger high-risk men and all older men with no out-of-pocket costs. | Support | Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (4/24/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | California | Essential Health Benefits | Legislation | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB224 | AB-224 - Health care coverage: essential health benefits | This bill would revise the current statute to clarify that fertility services are considered essential health benefits for state health plans. | Support | In assembly (9/3/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | California | Access to Care | Legislation | https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312 | AB 1312 - Hospital pricing | This bill would require that hospitals presumptively determine that an individual is eligible for participation under the hospital’s charity care policy and discount payment policy if they meet specific criteria, including that they are enrolled in CalFresh, CalWORKs, or WIC, and to screen an individual for participation if they are uninsured, enrolled in Medi-Cal with cost sharing or eligible for Medi-Cal, or enrolled in a Covered California plan. | Support | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. (9/4/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Colorado | Biomarker Testing | Proposed Rule/Regulations | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDGLwOC1GcPP1YSF-Jbd6UEr6s_JOlkW/view?pli=1 | DRAFT Proposed New Bulletin No. B-4.1XX Concerning Coverage of Biomarker Tests in Health Benefit Plans | Letter of support suggesting language for regulations to clarify the coverage requirements and implementation timeline of biomarker testing required under CO SB 24-124 that was signed into law last year. | Support | https://triagecancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CO-Biomarker-Reg-Comments-Support-Letter.pdf | Draft Bulletin Under Review | Not At This Time | Not Answered |
| 2025 | Illinois | Genetics | Legislation | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2534&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104 | IL HB2534 - Amends the Genetic Information Privacy Act | This bill would amend the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) to prevent insurers from asking for genetic testing information in connection with any life insurance policy. | Support | Re-referred to Rules Committee (3/21/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Illinois | Genetics | Legislation | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3605&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104 | IL HB3605 - Amends IL Insurance Code | This amendment would remove the $50 co-pay for genetic testing of inherited gene mutations for people with a personal or family history of cancer, and add coverage of cancer screenings for individuals with an increased risk of cancer. | Support | Re-referred to Rules Committee (4/11/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Maine | Access to Care | Legislation | https://legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/1502?legislature=132 | HP 986, LD 1502 - An Act to Update the Requirements for Health Insurance Coverage of Prostate Cancer Screening | This bill requires health insurance companies to provide prostate cancer screening as recommended by a physician with no cost-sharing. | Support | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature (6/25/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2024 | New Jersey | Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/A1841 | NJ A1841/S3060 - An act concerning health insurance coverage for prostate cancer screening | This bill would expand requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and require that coverage be provided without cost sharing. | Support | Referred to Assemby Health COmmittee (5/15/2025) / Referred to Senate Commerce Committee (4/8/2025) | Contact the Assembly in each chamber to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/committees/assembly-committees | |
| 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 | 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 second hearing in Insurance Committee (5/6/2025) | 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 | Held third hearing in Health Committee (4/30/2025) | 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 amending The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in casualty insurance, 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 | Access to Care | Legislation | https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/sb88 | SB 88 - An Act... providing for coverage for mammographic examinations, magnetic resonance imaging and other forms of breast imaging | This bill would require diagnostic breast imaging, including mammograms, MRIs and ultrasounds, at no-cost for individuals insured under Pennsylvania law. | Support | Laid on the table (6/25/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Texas | Access to Care | Legislation | https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HB712 | TX HB712 - An Act relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain tests to detect prostate cancer. | This bill would prohibit health insurance companies from imposing cost-sharing requirements for prostate cancer screening. | Support | Placed on General State Calendar (5/14/2025) | Contact your representative to ask them to support this legislation | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/ | |
| 2025 | Washington | Fertility Preservation | Legislation | https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1129&Chamber=House&Year=2025#documentSection | HB 1129 - 2025-26; An Act to provide IVF & Fertility Preservation | This bill would require health insurance companies to provide IVF & Fertility preservation to people who need it due to a cancer diagnosis. | Support | Referred to Appropriations (1/28/2025) | Send a comment on this bill to your legislators | https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/1129 |