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Introduced
02/06/2025
02/06/2025
In Committee
02/06/2025
02/06/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
104th General Assembly
Bill Summary
Amends the Parentage Act of 2015. Requires any individual who is an intended parent to undergo and pass a comprehensive criminal background check and screening before any insemination or embryo transfer. Provides that failure to do so waives any presumption that the person is the legal parent of any resulting child born through assisted reproduction. Prohibits an individual who is an intended parent from becoming the legal parent of a child resulting from the use of assisted reproduction if the intended parent has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to or nolo contendere to a list of criminal offenses. Makes the same changes to the Gestational Surrogacy Act. Amends the Illinois Fertility Fraud Act. Creates a cause of action against a health care provider by a child born as a result of assisted reproductive treatment if the health care provider failed to conduct a comprehensive criminal background check and screening of the child's intended parents that would have revealed that the intended parent had been convicted of or pled guilty to or nolo contendere to any specified violations and that child later suffered sexual abuse or sexual assault by that intended parent.
AI Summary
This bill amends several Illinois laws to strengthen screening and background check requirements for intended parents in assisted reproduction and gestational surrogacy. The bill requires any individual who wants to become a parent through assisted reproduction or surrogacy to undergo a comprehensive criminal background check that includes fingerprint checks with state and federal authorities, checks of child abuse registries, and checks of sex offender registries. If an intended parent fails to complete this screening or has been convicted of specific serious criminal offenses—which include murder, various sexual crimes, child abuse, kidnapping, and other violent crimes—they are prohibited from becoming a legal parent of a child conceived through assisted reproduction. The bill also creates a new legal cause of action allowing a child to sue a healthcare provider if they failed to conduct a thorough background check on intended parents and that child subsequently suffers sexual abuse. These provisions aim to protect potential children by ensuring that individuals with serious criminal histories cannot become parents through assisted reproduction technologies, adding an additional layer of safety screening to the existing processes for assisted reproduction and gestational surrogacy in Illinois.
Sponsors (1)
Last Action
Referred to Assignments (on 02/06/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1990&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=114&GA=104 |
| BillText | https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/SB/10400SB1990.htm |
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