Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB2418

Introduced
2/10/23  

Caption

DONOR-CONCEIVED PERSON PROTECT

Note

Overall, SB2418 reflects a growing trend towards transparency in assisted reproductive technologies and aims to align the legal framework with the ethical considerations and concerns of donor-conceived families. The Act's effective immediate enforcement signifies a commitment to advance the rights and welfare of individuals conceived through donor gametes.

Impact

The new regulations aim to enhance the protection of donor-conceived individuals and their families by ensuring transparency and accountability within fertility services. Consequences for non-compliance include potential civil penalties, license revocation, or refusal to renew licenses, which further enforces adherence to the Act. As of January 1, 2025, all gamete agencies and fertility clinics must obtain proper licensing from the Department of Public Health, effectively strengthening regulatory oversight of these services within the state. This licensing requirement will also introduce a fee structure aimed at funding the administration and enforcement of the Act.

Summary

SB2418, officially named the Donor-Conceived Persons and Families of Donor-Conceived Persons Protection Act, sets forth comprehensive regulations for the practices of gamete agencies, banks, and fertility clinics operating in Illinois. This legislation mandates that these entities collect and maintain identifying information and medical history of donors. Additionally, it requires them to obtain consent from donors for identity disclosures and provide donor-conceived persons the right to access this identifying information upon request. The health and medical histories of donors must also be made available to parents of minor donor-conceived persons, emphasizing the importance of this information for medical care and family health history.

Contention

There are notable points of contention surrounding the required limits on the number of families a single donor can contribute to. While the bill stipulates that once a donor's gametes have resulted in 25 families, no further matches can occur, this provision aims to maintain the anonymity and identity disclosure of the donors involved. Supporters advocate for such limits as crucial for easing the complexities surrounding donor-conceived individuals’ rights to know their biological origins, while critics may argue that this could limit the availability of gametes, impacting individuals seeking to conceive.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

IL SB224

Protections For Donor-conceived Persons And Families

IL H0777

An act relating to donor-conceived persons and gamete agencies, gamete banks, and fertility clinics

IL HB482

Health - Donor-Conceived Individuals and Gamete Agencies, Gamete Banks, and Fertility Clinics

IL HB1259

In Vitro Fertilization Protection & Gamete Donation Requirements

IL S00690

Enacts the "donor-conceived person protection act" to ensure that reproductive tissue banks, licensed by the department of health, collect and verify medical information from any donor it procures reproductive tissue from and to disseminate such information to a recipient before a recipient purchases or otherwise receives such tissue, and to donor-conceived persons, if any, when such persons turn eighteen years of age or earlier upon consent of the recipient parent or guardian; defines terms; makes related provisions.

IL SB223

Licensing for Clinics That Provide Fertility Services

IL HB350

In intestate succession, further providing for rules of succession; in administration and personal representatives, providing for liability of executor; in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for rules of succession, for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for hearing; in support matters generally, further providing general administration of support matters, repealing provisions relating to paternity and further providing for continuing jurisdiction over support orders; in general provisions relating to children and minors, repealing provisions relating to acknowledgment and claim of paternity; in jurisdiction, further providing for bases for jurisdiction over nonresident; enacting the Uniform Parentage Act; providing for parent-child relationship for certain individuals, for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors; and, in organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, further providing for original jurisdiction and venue.

IL SB2747

Relating To The Uniform Parentage Act.

IL HB350

In proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for hearing; in support matters generally, further providing for paternity and for continuing jurisdiction over support orders; in general provisions relating to children and minors, repealing provisions relating to acknowledgment and claim of paternity; in jurisdiction, further providing for bases for jurisdiction over nonresident; enacting the Uniform Parentage Act; and providing for parent-child relationship for certain individuals, for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors.

IL SB1231

Relating To Parentage.

Similar Bills

CA AB785

Parentage.

HI SB1503

Relating To Health.

HI SB1503

Relating To Health.

MI SB1082

Consumer protection: privacy; reproductive health data privacy act; create. Creates new act.

IL HB3163

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH-PRIVACY

IL HB5239

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH-INTERSTATE

IL SB1679

HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY

IL HB2904

HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY