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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB 3494   </title>
<shortdesc>INS-INFERTILITY</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. Sara Feigenholtz</sponsors>
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<lastaction>
<statusdate>1/9/2007</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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<synopsis>
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<reference>215 ILCS 5/356m</reference><aliasreference>from Ch. 73, par. 968m</aliasreference><SynopsisText>     Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Changes the definition of "infertility" to mean the presence of a demonstrated condition recognized by a licensed physician as a cause of infertility or the inability to conceive a pregnancy or carry a pregnancy to a live birth after a year or more of regular sexual relations without contraception. Effective immediately.</SynopsisText><synopsistitle>House Amendment No. 1</synopsistitle>
<SynopsisText>Deletes everything. Replaces with the original bill and makes this change. Defines "infertility" to mean the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse, the inability to sustain a successful pregnancy, or a medical condition that causes conception or gestation to be unlikely without fertility treatment. Effective immediately.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>2/23/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz</action>
<statusdate>2/24/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>First Reading</action>
<statusdate>2/24/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/1/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Assigned to Health Care Availability and Access Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/8/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>House Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Health Care Availability and Access Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/8/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>House Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Health Care Availability and Access Committee;  by Voice Vote</action>
<statusdate>3/8/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Motion Do Pass - Lost Health Care Availability and Access Committee;  005-002-004</action>
<statusdate>3/8/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Remains in Health Care Availability and Access Committee</action>
<statusdate>3/10/2005</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>1/9/2007</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
</actions>
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