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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1117 By: Stewart
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to in vitro fertilization; providing
legal protections for health care providers;
providing for practice of medicine; pr oviding legal
protections for the child or children; providing that
human embryos are the patient 's property; directing
there be no limit to the number of embryos; providing
for codification; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 560 of Title 10, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The technique of in vitro fertilization or human embryo
transfer may be performed in this state by persons duly authorized
to practice medicine at the request and with the consent in writing
of the husband and wife desiring the utilization of such technique
for the purpose of conceiving a child or children.
B. No person shall perform the techni que of in vitro
fertilization or human embryo transfer unless currently licensed to
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practice medicine in this state, and then only at the request and
with the written consent of the husband and wife desiring the
utilization of such technique. Said consent shall be executed and
acknowledged by both the husband and wife and the person who is to
perform the technique.
C. Any child or children born as a result of in vitro
fertilization or human embryo transfer shall be considered , for all
legal intents and pu rposes, the same as a naturally conceived child
of the husband and wife that consent to and receive in vitro
fertilization or human embryo transfer.
D. Human embryos created dur ing in vitro fertilization shall be
considered at law the patient 's property.
E. There shall be no limit to how many number of human embryos
that can be created, frozen, or implanted in a single in vitro
fertilization cycle.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
60-1-11767 TJ 01/06/25