Representative Sheryl Cole and Senator Sarah Eckhardt have refiled Rosie’s Law for the 2025 legislative session (HB 1098/SB 359).

Rosie’s Law would increase access to abortion and contraceptive care by removing existing health insurance coverage prohibitions and by:

• Requiring all health insurance plans, including Medicaid, to provide coverage for legal abortion care without cost sharing requirements; 
• Requiring all health insurance plans, including Medicaid, to provide coverage for all forms of contraception approved by the FDA–including all forms of sterilization and emergency contraception–prohibiting cost-sharing as well as utilization control techniques, and requiring coverage for counseling, device insertion and removal, and effective pain and anxiety management for device insertion and removal.

Whether they have private or government-funded health insurance, every Texan should have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including annual screenings, contraception, prenatal care, and abortion.

Rosie’s Law is named in honor of Rosie Jiménez, a 27-year-old beloved mother, student and young Chicana living in McAllen, Texas, who lost her life in 1977 because Medicaid would not cover her abortion care. She could not afford to pay for a safe, legal procedure and died after an unsafe abortion. For people like Rosie who are struggling to make ends meet, insurance coverage bans, like any other abortion ban, can make it impossible to access care. Rosie was the first known victim of the Hyde Amendment, which banned Medicaid coverage of abortion care in 1976.