Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: registration of births by surrogate mother.
Children — Adoption Family Maternal and infant care Vital statistics
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
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- Governor signs, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, if a child is born to a surrogate mother, information about the surrogate mother must be entered on the child’s birth record and information about the father must be omitted from the birth record. If a court determines parental rights over the child, the clerk of court must report the court’s determination to the state registrar, who must prepare and register a new birth record and send notice to the local registrar who filed the original record to have the replaced record destroyed.
Under this bill, a court may not determine parental rights over a child born to a surrogate mother unless at least one individual petitioning for parental rights is biologically related to the child.