---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVERAGE FOR INFERTILITY (Mandates insurance coverage for medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVERAGE FOR INFERTILITY (Mandates insurance coverage for medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 821"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 821 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Health Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goodwin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-26"
last_action: "2017-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/546dde20-f99c-4cc7-9e5a-0cf03252e839"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "4d92033f3476ab916d6e3f12f82a2f4818aedc92882defb64c43ca331c016af5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island SB 821 (2017) — AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE -- COVERAGE FOR INFERTILITY (Mandates insurance coverage for medically necessary expenses for standard fertility preservation services when a medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **821 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText17/SenateText17/S0821A.pdf)

## Votes

- IN CONCURRENCE — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Goodwin — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-04-26** 04/26/2017 Introduced, referred to Senate Health and Human Services `referral-committee, introduction`
- **2017-04-28** 04/28/2017 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/04/2017)
- **2017-05-04** 05/04/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2017-05-26** 05/26/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/01/2017)
- **2017-06-01** 06/01/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-06** 06/06/2017 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/08/2017)
- **2017-06-08** 06/08/2017 Senate passed Sub A `passage`
- **2017-06-09** 06/09/2017 Referred to House Municipal Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-12** 06/12/2017 Committee transferred to House Corporations
- **2017-06-16** 06/16/2017 Scheduled for consideration (06/20/2017)
- **2017-06-20** 06/20/2017 Committee recommends passage of Sub A in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-24** 06/24/2017 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/27/2017)
- **2017-06-27** 06/27/2017 House passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-06-29** 06/29/2017 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-07-05** 07/05/2017 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/546dde20-f99c-4cc7-9e5a-0cf03252e839`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).