HB4447 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 to add definitions and procedures for gestational surrogacy arrangements, distinguishing between gestational surrogates (who have no genetic contribution) and intended parents.

• Revises terminology throughout the Act to replace "custody" with "allocation of parental responsibilities" and "removal" with "relocation" to align with current family law language.

• Expands the challenge procedures for voluntary acknowledgments of parentage to allow signatories to challenge acknowledgments based on fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact within 2 years, with specific protections for children requesting genetic testing.

• Modifies genetic testing provisions to presume it is equitable and in the child's best interests to grant a motion for genetic testing, unless extraordinary circumstances exist making testing contrary to the child's best interests.

• Updates birth record identification requirements to use full names and dates of birth instead of initials and years, and allows use of tax identification numbers in addition to social security numbers on voluntary acknowledgments.