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ND HB1477
Bill
Status
1/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Karla Hanson
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AI Summary
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Creates new chapter in Title 14 of North Dakota Century Code establishing legal rights to access assisted reproduction services and fertility treatment, including IVF, intrauterine insemination, egg/embryo donation, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection
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Prohibits the state or any political subdivision from implementing laws, rules, or policies that prohibit, limit, delay, or impede access to assisted reproduction services or fertility treatment
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Grants individuals the right to receive fertility treatment, make decisions about reproductive genetic material (oocytes, sperm, embryos), and enter contracts with providers for handling such material
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Protects health care providers' right to provide fertility treatment and health carriers' right to cover these services, with all practices required to follow American Society for Reproductive Medicine and ACOG guidelines
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Allows civil action by the attorney general or any adversely affected person against government entities that restrict these rights, with courts authorized to award injunctive relief, court costs, and attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs
Legislative Description
Fertility health care treatment rights; and to provide a penalty.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 34 nays 59
2/12/2025