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This bill proposes the Massachusetts Parentage Act, which establishes a comprehensive framework for determining parentage in a gender-neutral manner. The key provisions include: - Defining various terms related to parentage, such as "acknowledged parent," "adjudicated parent," and "assisted reproduction." - Outlining the circumstances under which a parent-child relationship is established, including through birth, presumption, adjudication, adoption, acknowledgment, de facto parentage, assisted reproduction, and surrogacy agreements. - Establishing a process for voluntary acknowledgment and denial of parentage, and setting forth procedures for challenging such determinations. - Providing rules and requirements for genetic testing to establish parentage, and addressing issues related to confidentiality and access to genetic testing records. - Detailing the procedures for judicial proceedings to adjudicate parentage, including standing, notice, jurisdiction, and evidentiary standards. - Addressing special circumstances, such as parentage of children conceived through assisted reproduction or surrogacy agreements, and precluding establishment of parentage by perpetrators of sexual assault. - Repealing and superseding relevant provisions in existing law related to the establishment of parentage.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S77