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Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0813

"Assisted Reproduction Act", authorizing and providing for +gestational
surrogacy agreements; defining certain terms; regulating the donation+ of
gametes, authorizing and providing for reasonable compensation; +providing for
mental health evaluation and assisted reproduction counseling for +gestational
surrogacy agreement purposes, specifying qualifications for persons +to practice
in assisted reproduction counseling and certain counseling and +evaluation
requirements and providing for written recommendations relating to +gestational
surrogate or intended parent suitability for participation in +collaborative
reproduction, for evidence of meeting the counseling requirements and+ for the
availability of a written summary to other intended parents or +gestational
surrogates, confidentiality provision; specifying certain gestational+ surrogacy
agreement requirements, authorizing reasonable compensation, +prohibiting the
agreements from limiting the right of the gestational surrogate to +make mental
or physical health decisions; providing for district court review and+ approval
of the agreements and for pregestational determination of parentage,
enforceability; providing for the confidentiality of proceedings, +records and
identities of individual parties to gestational surrogacy agreements,+ for court
exclusive continuing jurisdiction over matters arising from the +agreements and
for termination of the agreements; subsequent marriage of a +gestational
surrogate not to affect the validity of the agreement; providing for +the
intended parent and for donors relinquishment of rights, responsibilities,
interests and control over the gametes, +embryo or resulting child; restricting
inheritance rights under gestational +surrogacy agreements; specifying certain
renumbering and reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes(ra)