Florida SB 1044: School Chaplains

Bill Text

1044 
Informed Consent for Assisted Reproductive Technology 
2025-12-31T06:11:29Z 
Revising requirements for certain written disposition agreements required between a commissioning couple and a treating physician; prohibiting health care providers from performing in vitro fertilization without first obtaining informed consent from the commissioning couple; prohibiting health care providers from discarding embryos for nonpayment unless certain conditions are met; requiring health care providers to provide informed consent in the patients’ primary language or with a qualified interpreter, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1044 

 By Senator Grall 

 29-00895C-26 20261044__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to informed consent for assisted 
 3 reproductive technology; amending s. 742.17, F.S.; 
 4 revising requirements for certain written disposition 
 5 agreements required between a commissioning couple and 
 6 a treating physician; creating s. 742.175, F.S.; 
 7 defining terms; prohibiting health care providers from 
 8 performing in vitro fertilization without first 
 9 obtaining informed consent from the commissioning 
 10 couple; requiring that such informed consent be 
 11 obtained each time a new in vitro fertilization cycle 
 12 is undertaken; requiring health care providers to 
 13 provide the patient certain information; providing 
 14 construction; specifying requirements for the informed 
 15 consent form; requiring health care providers to enter 
 16 into a written disposition agreement with patients to 
 17 track specified elections; specifying requirements for 
 18 such agreements; prohibiting health care providers 
 19 from discarding embryos for nonpayment unless certain 
 20 conditions are met; providing construction; requiring 
 21 health care providers to disclose their policies; 
 22 requiring health care providers to provide certain 
 23 disclosures within a specified timeframe; providing an 
 24 exception; requiring health care providers to provide 
 25 informed consent in the patients’ primary language or 
 26 with a qualified interpreter; requiring that the 
 27 informed consent form state whether an interpreter was 
 28 used; requiring health care providers to offer 
 29 patients the opportunity to ask questions and withdraw 
 30 consent without penalty at any time before an embryo 
 31 transfer; requiring health care providers to retain 
 32 certain records for a specified timeframe; requiring 
 33 health care providers to provide patients a copy of 
 34 their records upon request within a specified 
 35 timeframe; providing for disciplinary action; 
 36 providing construction; providing severability; 
 37 amending s. 456.072, F.S.; conforming a provision to 
 38 changes made by the act; providing an effective date. 
 39 
 40 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 41 
 42 Section 1. Section 742.17, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 43 read: 
 44 742.17 Disposition of eggs, sperm, or preembryos; rights of 
 45 inheritance.—A commissioning couple and the treating physician 
 46 shall enter into a written agreement that provides for the 
 47 future use of the embryos by the commissioning couple, continued 
 48 storage with payment, embryo transfer to another couple, 
 49 permission for or prohibition of research donation, selections 
 50 for contingencies per s. 742.175(4)(b), and the disposition of 
 51 the commissioning couple’s eggs, sperm, and preembryos in the 
 52 event of a divorce, the death of a spouse, or any other 
 53 unforeseen circumstance. 
 54 (1) Absent a written agreement, any remaining eggs or sperm 
 55 shall remain under the control of the party that provides the 
 56 eggs or sperm. 
 57 (2) Absent a written agreement, decisionmaking authority 
 58 regarding the disposition of preembryos shall reside jointly 
 59 with the commissioning couple. 
 60 (3) Absent a written agreement, in the case of the death of 
 61 one member of the commissioning couple, any eggs, sperm, or 
 62 preembryos shall remain under the control of the surviving 
 63 member of the commissioning couple. 
 64 (4) A child conceived from the eggs or sperm of a person or 
 65 persons who died before the transfer of their eggs, sperm, or 
 66 preembryos to a woman’s body shall not be eligible for a claim 
 67 against the decedent’s estate unless the child has been provided 
 68 for by the decedent’s will. 
 69 Section 2. Section 742.175, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 70 read: 
 71 742.175 Assisted reproductive technology; informed consent; 
 72 required disclosures; embryo disposition.— 
 73 (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 74 (a) “Assisted reproductive technology” has the same meaning 
 75 as provided in s. 742.13 and includes in vitro fertilization, 
 76 intracytoplasmic sperm injection, embryo culture, 
 77 cryopreservation, and embryo transfer. 
 78 (b) “Commission