Pennsylvania HB 836: An Act protecting an individual's choice to use assisted reproductive technology.

Status: Referred to Health & Human Services (as of 2026-06-18)

State: Pennsylvania · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: HB 836

Sponsors: Jennifer O'Mara, La'Tasha Mayes, Steven Malagari, Tarik Khan, Benjamin Sanchez, Melissa Cerrato, Michael Schlossberg, Marylouise Isaacson, Carol Hill-Evans, Chris Pielli, Liz Hanbidge, Maureen Madden, Gina Curry, Joseph Hohenstein, Kyle Donahue, Jim Haddock, Malcolm Kenyatta, Dan Williams, Mary Jo Daley, Daniel Deasy, Melissa Shusterman, Heather Boyd, Ben Waxman, G. Roni Green, Tina Davis

Bill Text

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 866 PRINTER'S NO. 3187
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 836
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY O'MARA, MAYES, MALAGARI, KHAN, SANCHEZ, CERRATO,
SCHLOSSBERG, ISAACSON, HILL-EVANS, PIELLI, HANBIDGE, MADDEN,
CURRY, HOHENSTEIN, DONAHUE, HADDOCK, KENYATTA, D. WILLIAMS,
DALEY, DEASY, SHUSTERMAN AND BOYD, MARCH 10, 2025
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
AS AMENDED, APRIL 14, 2026
AN ACT
Protecting an individual's choice to use assisted reproductive
technology.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Preserving
Access to Reproductive Efforts Non-Traditional Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Assisted reproductive technology." Procreative procedures
that involve the laboratory handling of human eggs or
preembryos. The term includes in vitro fertilization embryo
transfer, gamete intrafallopian transfer, pronuclear stage
transfer, tubal embryo transfer and zygote intrafallopian
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transfer.
"ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY." ALL TREATMENTS OR
LABORATORY PROCEDURES THAT INVOLVE THE HANDLING OF HUMAN OOCYTES
OR EMBRYOS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACHIEVING PREGNANCY, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF), GAMETE
INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER (GIFT) AND ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN
TRANSFER (ZIFT).
Section 3. Interference prohibited.
The Commonwealth may not interfere with the use of medically
appropriate methods of assisted reproductive technology or the
manner in which medically appropriate methods of assisted
reproductive technology are provided to an individual.
Section 4. Construction.
Any law enacted by the General Assembly after the effective
date of this act shall be subject to section 3 unless the
General Assembly expressly excludes that law from this act by
specific reference.
Section 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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