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Proposed Rule2026-09479

Excepted Fertility Benefits

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Published
May 13, 2026

Issuing agencies

Treasury DepartmentInternal Revenue ServiceLabor DepartmentEmployee Benefits Security AdministrationHealth and Human Services Department

Abstract

This document contains proposed rules that would amend the regulations regarding excepted benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to establish certain fertility benefits as a new category of limited excepted benefits. Excepted benefits are generally exempt from the market requirements that were added to those laws by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the No Surprises Act, and certain other Federal laws specifically related to group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage.

Indexed from Federal Register on May 13, 2026.

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