Delaware state workers will start paying more for infertility treatments as of July 1, due to a cut in benefits recently approved by the state’s employee benefits committee.

A week after the state Senate was deadlocked on a bill expanding mandates to health insurers in aiding couples using in vitro fertilization, the measure passed and is now headed to the Maryland House.

A California insurance agency has teamed up with a New Jersey-based fertility center to create what it says is the first in vitro fertilization insurance program.