Assembly Bill A23

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A23 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §391-u, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3458
2011-2012: A3045
2013-2014: A4418
2015-2016: A6289
2017-2018: A423
2021-2022: A200

2019-A23 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities to inform clients relating to the inheritance rights of a posthumously conceived child from the utilization of such sperm or ovum.

2019-A23 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    23
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 391-u to read as follows:
   § 391-U. DISCLOSURE STATEMENT BY SPERM OR OVUM STORAGE FACILITY.   ANY
 MEDICAL  FACILITY, OR OTHER FACILITY, ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF PROVID-
 ING THE STORAGE OF SPERM  OR  OVUM  SHALL,  PRIOR  TO  ENGAGING  IN  ANY
 CONTRACTUAL  AGREEMENT  WITH  A  CLIENT FOR SUCH STORAGE, PROVIDE TO THE
 CLIENT WRITTEN NOTIFICATION OF THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTIONS  4-1.3  AND
 11-1.5 OF THE ESTATES, POWERS AND TRUSTS LAW RELATING TO THE INHERITANCE
 RIGHTS  OF  A CHILD POSTHUMOUSLY CONCEIVED FROM THE UTILIZATION OF SPERM
 OR OVUM STORED WITH SUCH FACILITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02543-01-9

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