6 CFR § 17.440 - Health and insurance benefits and services.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t6/s17.440"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "6 CFR § 17.440 - Health and insurance benefits and services."
title_number: 6
title_name: "Domestic Security"
section_number: "17.440"
section_name: "Health and insurance benefits and services."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY"
part_number: "17"
part_name: "NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Pub. L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135 (6 U.S.C. 1 ); 5 U.S.C. 301; 20 U.S.C. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1685, 1686, 1687, 1688."
regulatory_source: "68 FR 10892, Mar. 6, 2003, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "17"
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# 17.440 Health and insurance benefits and services.
Subject to § 17.235(d), in providing a medical, hospital, accident, or life insurance benefit, service, policy, or plan to any of its students, a recipient shall not discriminate on the basis of sex, or provide such benefit, service, policy, or plan in a manner that would violate §§ 17.500 through 17.550 if it were provided to employees of the recipient. This section shall not prohibit a recipient from providing any benefit or service that may be used by a different proportion of students of one sex than of the other, including family planning services. However, any recipient that provides full coverage health service shall provide gynecological care.