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MI HB5714
Bill
Status
6/30/2022
Primary Sponsor
Bronna Kahle
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AI Summary
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Establishes civil liability for persons who engage in false representation in assisted reproduction, allowing recovery of economic damages, noneconomic damages, punitive damages, and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
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Permits injured individuals to bring civil actions, including patients who give birth, patients' spouses, individuals conceived through assisted reproduction, and donors whose gametes or embryos were used as a result of the false representation.
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Creates a separate cause of action for each child born as a result of false representation in assisted reproduction.
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Requires civil actions to be brought within 3 years after discovering the false representation in assisted reproduction.
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Takes effect only if Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 5716 is enacted into law.
Legislative Description
Civil procedure: civil actions; civil action for making a false representation in assisted reproduction; provide for. Amends 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.101 - 600.9947) by adding sec. 2980.
Crimes: fraud
Last Action
Referred To Committee Of The Whole With Substitute (s-1)
12/7/2022