Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires health insurance and medicaid coverage to receive reproductive or family planning health care services in New Jersey.

Highlights:

• Specifies that the policy in the state should ensure that abortion services can be provided and that insurance coverage can be expanded to all who need it (Sec. 1).

• Defines family planning and reproductive health care services as including abortion, family planning and counseling, newborn care, and inpatient hospital care (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that family planning and reproductive health care services does not include childbirth within its definition (Sec. 1)

• Prohibits insurance contracts from placing delays on receiving coverage for reproductive healthcare and prohibits the need for prior authorization (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes religious employers to apply for and be granted exemptions for coverage that goes against the religious beliefs of an individual (Sec. 1).

• Requires the Department of Human Services to provide reproductive health care services and cover the costs for people under the provisions of Medicaid (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits public entities from denying any individual from being able to receive services associated with reproductive health care services (Sec. 2).

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