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SF 813 Senate Long Description

"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)