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NY S04841

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/16/2021

Primary Sponsor

Alessandra Biaggi

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Origin

Senate

2021-2022 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Adds Section 190.90 to the Penal Law establishing "fertility fraud" as a class E felony offense
  • Makes it illegal for a health care provider to perform assisted reproduction procedures using their own or another donor's spermatozoon or ovum without the patient's informed written consent
  • Prohibits health care providers from intentionally performing assisted reproduction procedures using human reproductive material without the donor's consent or in a manner exceeding the donor's consent
  • Defines "human reproductive material" to include human spermatozoon, ovum, or any human organism from fertilized ovum to embryo stage
  • Takes effect 120 days after becoming law

Legislative Description

Establishes the crime of fertility fraud as an assisted reproduction procedure using the health care provider's own spermatozoon or ovum or using human reproductive material without the donor's consent.

Last Action

RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

7/22/2022

Committee Referrals

Codes2/16/2021

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