House2025-26 sessionFiscal note
ESHB 1971: Increasing access to prescription hormone therapy.
Signed into law: Chapter 171, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Macri
- Introduced
- February 13, 2025
- Status
- C 171 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025. (April 25, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Requires health plans that cover prescription hormone therapy to reimburse a 12-month refill of prescription hormone therapy at one time.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 8, 202558 yea · 38 nay · 2 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 16, 202540 yea · 9 nay
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