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AZ SB1005

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/10/2022

Primary Sponsor

Vince Leach

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2022)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 25-218 regarding surrogate parentage contracts and related legal definitions
  • Prohibits any person from entering into, inducing, arranging, procuring, or assisting in the formation of a surrogate parentage contract
  • Establishes that a surrogate is the legal mother of a child born through a surrogate parentage contract and retains custody rights
  • Provides that if a surrogate is married, her husband is presumed to be the legal father of the child, though this presumption is rebuttable
  • Defines "surrogate parentage contract" as an agreement in which a woman agrees to implantation of an unrelated embryo or conception through insemination and voluntary relinquishment of parental rights

Legislative Description

Technical correction; marriage

Technical Correction

Last Action

Senate read second time

1/11/2022

Committee Referrals

Rules1/10/2022

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