 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to establishing fertility
          fraud as a class E felony offense
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.90 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 190.90 Fertility fraud.
     4    1. A health care provider is  guilty  of  fertility  fraud  when  such
     5  provider:  (a)  knowingly  or intentionally performs an assisted reprod-
     6  uction procedure using the spermatozoon  or  ovum  of  the  health  care
     7  provider  or  any  other  donor  without  the patient's informed written
     8  consent to treatment using spermatozoon or ovum  from  the  health  care
     9  provider  or  from  any  donor  other than a donor from whom the patient
    10  consented in writing; or
    11    (b) intentionally performs an assisted reproduction procedure and such
    12  provider knows or reasonably should have known that the human  reproduc-
    13  tive  material  was  used: (i) without the donor's consent; or (ii) in a
    14  manner or to an extent other than that to which the donor consented.
    15    2. "Human reproductive material" means:
    16    (a) a human spermatozoon or ovum; or
    17    (b) a human organism at any stage of development from fertilized  ovum
    18  to embryo.
    19    Fertility fraud is a class E felony.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02132-01-1
Relates to establishing the crime of fertility fraud

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