Minnesota 2023-2024 Regular Session

Minnesota Senate Bill SF3504

Introduced
2/12/24  

Caption

The Parentage Act

Impact

The bill aims to both simplify and modernize the legal processes surrounding parentage, ensuring that individuals who become parents through assisted reproduction have clear legal recognition and rights. It proposes significant changes, including the establishment of a registry of paternity, which will help document and manage parental relationships more effectively. By repealing outdated statutes and implementing the new provisions of the Parentage Act, the bill intends to provide a more consistent and clear legal structure that reflects current societal norms and practices surrounding family creation.

Summary

S.F. No. 3504, known as the Parentage Act, seeks to establish a comprehensive legal framework for determining parentage, particularly in the context of assisted reproduction and surrogacy. This proposed legislation introduces definitions, procedures, and regulations that clarify the rights and responsibilities of parents, genetic parents, and intended parents. One of the main objectives is to update and standardize the existing laws regarding parentage, particularly as they pertain to evolving technologies such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation, and gamete banking, which have become more prevalent in modern society.

Contention

Notably, there may be points of contention surrounding the rights of presumed parents versus those of genetic parents, which can lead to complex legal disputes under the new framework. Additionally, while the bill seeks to empower intended parents in cases of surrogacy, there could be concerns regarding the extent of their rights and responsibilities, especially in relation to the surrogate mother and her rights. Stakeholders in the reproductive health and adoption sectors may voice concerns about the implications of the bill on existing familial structures and the potential for increased litigation over contested parentage claims.

Companion Bills

MN HF3567

Similar To Assisted reproduction rights and responsibilities updated, surrogacy agreement requirements created, and recordkeeping and information sharing provided for genetic donation.

Similar Bills

MN HF3567

Assisted reproduction rights and responsibilities updated, surrogacy agreement requirements created, and recordkeeping and information sharing provided for genetic donation.

PA 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.

HI HB1193

Relating To Parentage.

HI SB1231

Relating To Parentage.

PA HB1961

Adding provisions relating to establishment of parent-child relationship for certain individuals; providing for voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, for registry of paternity, for genetic testing, for proceeding to adjudicate parentage, for assisted reproduction, for surrogacy agreements and for information about donors.

HI SB2747

Relating To The Uniform Parentage Act.

PA 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.

NM HB373

Revised Uniform Parentage Act