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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Jan 18, 2013 |
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Senate Bill S2547
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 47th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 29th Senate District
2013-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Domestic Relations Law
- Laws Affected:
- Rpld Art 8, Dom Rel L
2013-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2547 TITLE OF BILL: An act to repeal article 8 of the domestic relations law, relating to the prohibition of surrogate parenting contracts PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To ensure that loving and committed couples have every opportunity to raise and nurture their own genet- ically linked children - including the utilization of a gestational surrogate parenting contracts - a practice currently prohibited under New York State Law. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: The legislation repeals Article 8 of the Domestic Relations Law that specifically prohibits the use of surro- gate parenting contracts. JUSTIFICATION: On July 17, 1993, New York State passed an outright prohibition on commercial surrogacy agreements. Commercial surrogacy agreements - in which a woman is paid to carry and bear the product of her egg and donor sperm or an implanted fertilized egg -- is completely banned in New York by Article 8 of the New York State Domestic Relations Law. The state is one of only four in the nation with such a ban. Concern about commercial surrogacy arrangements reached a peak during the 1988 New Jersey Case, in the Matter of Baby M (A.2d 1227 (NJ. 1988)), a traditional surrogacy arrangement. In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate herself provides the eggs and is therefore genetically
2013-S2547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2547 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 18, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to repeal article 8 of the domestic relations law, relating to the prohibition of surrogate parenting contracts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Article 8 of the domestic relations law is REPEALED. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04243-01-3
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