H.B. 611 Summary

• Establishes a new chapter creating legal framework for assisted reproduction agreements, including definitions for donors, gestational carriers, traditional surrogates, and intended parents.

• Requires assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers to include execution date, gamete origin information, identity of intended parents, and detailed disclosure of medical expense coverage including insurance policy provisions and liability.

• Mandates both the surrogate and intended parent(s) be represented by separate independent licensed attorneys before executing the agreement, with signatures notarized or witnessed as required by jurisdiction.

• Allows intended parents to file parentage establishment actions before child's birth in multiple venues and establishes that properly executed agreements rebut presumptions of parentage for gestational carriers, establishing intended parent(s) as legal parents.

• Provides that notarized agreements with attorney declarations create presumptively valid surrogacy arrangements that cannot be rescinded without court order and grants family court authority to issue parentage judgments without further hearing absent good faith compliance concerns.