2018 Senate Bill 1082

Permit surrogate mother contracts

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 5, 2018

Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To permit “gestational surrogate parentage” contracts. A 1988 law banned all surrogate mother contracts that require a woman to “relinquish her parental or custodial rights” to a child she bears whether she conceived the child or an embryo was implanted. The proposed new law would permit the latter – contracting for a woman to bear and relinquish an implanted child to whom she is not related - subject to various conditions specified in the bill.

Referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors, and Human Services