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PA HB350
Bill
Status
6/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Ben Sanchez
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AI Summary
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Enacts the Uniform Parentage Act in Pennsylvania, establishing comprehensive legal frameworks for determining parent-child relationships regardless of parents' marital status or gender, including through birth, presumption, acknowledgment, adjudication, assisted reproduction, and surrogacy agreements
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Repeals existing paternity statutes (Section 4343 and Section 5103 of Title 23) and replaces them with gender-neutral "parentage" provisions, allowing voluntary acknowledgment of parentage to be filed with the Department of Human Services with a 60-day rescission period
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Establishes detailed requirements for gestational and genetic surrogacy agreements, including that surrogates must be at least 21 years old, have previously given birth, complete medical and mental health evaluations, and have independent legal representation paid for by intended parents
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Creates genetic testing procedures for parentage disputes, requiring 99% or greater probability of parentage to establish a presumption, with testing performed by accredited laboratories certified by AABB or designated federal bodies
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Requires gamete banks and fertility clinics to collect and maintain donor identifying information and medical history, with disclosure provisions allowing donor-conceived individuals who reach age 18 to access nonidentifying medical history of donors
Legislative Description
In intestate succession, further providing for rules of succession; in administration and personal representatives, providing for liability of executor; in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for rules of succession, for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for hearing; in support matters generally, further providing general administration of support matters, repealing provisions relating to paternity and further providing for continuing jurisdiction over support orders; in general provisions relating to children and minors, repealing provisions relating to acknowledgment and claim of paternity; in jurisdiction, further providing for bases for jurisdiction over nonresident; enacting the Uniform Parentage Act; providing for parent-child relationship for certain individuals, for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors; and, in organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, further providing for original jurisdiction and venue.
Last Action
Referred to Judiciary
6/24/2025