PENNSYLVANIA, March 10 - PRINTER'S NO. 354

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

353

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, COLLETT, FONTANA, HUGHES, KEARNEY,

STREET, SANTARSIERO, TARTAGLIONE, COSTA, CAPPELLETTI, KANE

AND MUTH, MARCH 10, 2021

REFERRED TO BANKING AND INSURANCE, MARCH 10, 2021

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An

act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and

consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of

insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and

protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds

associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and

fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and

supervision of insurance carried by such companies,

associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by

the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and

repealing existing laws," in casualty insurance, providing

for contraceptive coverage.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known

as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended by adding a

section to read:

Section 635.8. Contraceptive Coverage.--(a) The General

Assembly hereby finds that:

(1) Each year, approximately two million eight hundred

thousand women face an unintended pregnancy, representing nearly

half of all pregnancies in the United States. In 2014, forty

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