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HI HCR73
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/7/2018
Primary Sponsor
Cindy Evans
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AI Summary
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Department of the Attorney General is requested to convene and lead a surrogacy working group to consider whether Hawaii should regulate surrogacy arrangements.
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Working group must seek input from the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Judiciary, Hawaii State Bar Association, and advocates representing surrogates, gestational carriers, intended parents, and children.
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Working group shall consider minimum requirements for valid surrogacy agreements, types of surrogacy to allow, financial exploitation prevention, legal presumptions of parenthood, same-sex parental rights, and birth certificate requirements.
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Working group must submit a progress report to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2019 Regular Session and a final report with proposed legislation (or explanation of why none is needed) no later than twenty days before the 2020 Regular Session.
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Working group is designated as informal and shall cease to exist on June 30, 2020.
Legislative Description
Requesting The Department Of The Attorney General To Convene A Two-year Working Group To Determine The Best Way To Protect The Rights Of Surrogates, Gestational Carriers, Intended Parents, And Children.
Attorney General
Last Action
Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Souki excused (1).
3/28/2018