Surrogacy and Assisted Reproduction

Providing that a preplanned adoption arrangement may not authorize certain actions under certain circumstances; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health, to adopt certain rules for donor banks and fertility clinics by a specified date; requiring surrogacy agencies to require all participants to undergo certain mental health evaluations; requiring surrogacy agencies to obtain level 2 security background investigations for participants from…

Source: OpenStates · fetched March 13, 2026

• Caregiver (family or unpaid)directModerate impactHigh certainty

  Must undergo mental health evaluations and background investigations as part of surrogacy arrangements.

  “requiring surrogacy agencies to require all participants to undergo certain mental health evaluations; requiring surrogacy agencies to obtain level 2 security background investigations for participants from…”· General Provisions

• Parent / guardiandirectModerate impactHigh certainty

  Preplanned adoption arrangements may be restricted under certain circumstances.

  “Providing that a preplanned adoption arrangement may not authorize certain actions under certain circumstances”· General Provisions

• Mental health service userdirectModerate impactHigh certainty

  Participants in surrogacy arrangements are required to undergo mental health evaluations.

  “requiring surrogacy agencies to require all participants to undergo certain mental health evaluations”· General Provisions