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SF 2965 Senate Long Description

3E Establishing gestational (pregnancy) carrier (surrogate mother) arrangements and providing for children's legal status confirmation; modifying assisted reproduction provisions; defining certain terms; providing for intended parents to be treated as biological parents; specifying rights of parentage; specifying eligibility and requirements for gestational carriers, requiring compensation reporting and possible public assistance benefits disqualification; specifying gestational carrier contract requirements and including direct reimbursement to the department of human services under certain conditions; providing for a duty to support child; establishing a parent child relationship; providing for the effect of gestational carrier subsequent marriage; specifying civil and criminal immunities; providing for noncompliance and effect of noncompliance, specifying genetically related gestational carriers to children as noncompliant, providing for damages and irrevocability in gestational carrier arrangements
(Ch. 329, 2008 - VETO)