Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. "A new section is added to chapter 48.43 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A health plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2019, may provide coverage for:
(a) All contraceptive drugs, devices, and other products, approved by the federal food and drug administration, including over-the-counter contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, approved by the federal food and drug administration;
(b) Voluntary sterilization procedures;
(c) The consultations, examinations, procedures, and medical services that are necessary to prescribe, dispense, insert, deliver, distribute, administer, or remove the drugs, devices, and other products or services in (a) and (b) of this subsection.
(2) This section may not be construed to allow for denial of care on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, age, citizenship, immigration status, or disability.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 48.43 RCW to read as follows:
(1) If a health plan issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2019, provides coverage for maternity care or services, the health plan may also provide a covered person with substantially equivalent coverage to permit the abortion of a pregnancy.
(2)(a) Coverage for the abortion of a pregnancy may be subject to terms and conditions generally applicable to the health plan's coverage of maternity care or services, including applicable cost sharing.
(b) A health plan is not required to cover abortions that would be unlawful under RCW
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(3) This section does not, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Sec. 18054(a)(6), apply to a multistate plan that does not provide coverage for the abortion of a pregnancy.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities shall conduct a literature review on disparities in access to reproductive health care based on socioeconomic status, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, geography, and other factors. By January 1, 2019, the council shall report the results of the literature review and make recommendations on reducing or removing disparities in access to reproductive health care to the governor and the relevant standing committees of the legislature."