SB 1912 Summary

• Establishes legal framework for gestational surrogacy agreements in Oklahoma, allowing intended parents to establish parent-child relationships with children born through surrogacy regardless of genetic connection to the gestational mother.

• Recognizes mother-child and father-child relationships between intended parents and children born under valid gestational surrogacy agreements, even when the intended father is unmarried to the gestational mother.

• Permits use of donated eggs or sperm when donors have voluntarily relinquished all rights, treating donated reproductive material as equivalent to the intended parents' own genetic material for surrogacy purposes.

• Establishes that children born through gestational surrogacy or with donated eggs/sperm are treated as legitimate children of the intended parents who consented to the procedure.

• Effective date: November 1, 2014.