New York A 1107: Enacts the "donor conceived person protection act"

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A01107 Summary:

BILL NOA01107 

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRConrad

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Add §4369-a, Pub Health L

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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.

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BILL NOA01107 

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01/09/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1107

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, CONRAD -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
 "donor-conceived person protection act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "donor-conceived person protection act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature acknowledges
 4 the importance of parents and donor-conceived persons knowing the
 5 medical history of individuals who have donated reproductive tissue to a
 6 reproductive tissue bank for purposes of an artificial insemination or
 7 assisted reproductive technology procedure and disseminating this histo-
 8 ry information to a recipient and donor-conceived person upon request,
 9 if any.
 10 The legislature further acknowledges knowing the medical history of a
 11 donor will provide recipients with the necessary information to make
 12 informed decisions regarding the process of artificial insemination or
 13 assisted reproductive technology procedure and for donor-conceived
 14 persons to obtain essential medical information, which may reveal any
 15 relevant inheritable conditions.
 16 The legislature finds that reproductive tissue banks have a duty to
 17 collect and verify medical history information provided by donors on
 18 donor self-reported medical histories and during the donor screening
 19 processes and to keep detailed records of such for use by recipients and
 20 donor-conceived persons, if any, prior to a procedure and in the future.
 21 § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 4369-a
 22 to read as follows:
 23 § 4369-a. Donor-conceived person protection act. 1. For the purposes
 24 of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02581-01-5

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 1 (a) "Reproductive tissue bank" means any person or facility, which
 2 procures, stores, or arranges for the storage of or distributes and/or
 3 releases reproductive tissue to an insemination/implantation site or
 4 recipient for use in artificial insemination or assisted reproductive
 5 technology procedures. Reproductive tissue banks include, but are not
 6 limited to, semen banks, oocyte donation programs and embryo banks.
 7 (b) "Reproductive tissue donor" means a person who provides reproduc-
 8 tive tissue for use in artificial insemination or assisted reproductive
 9 procedures performed on recipients other than that person or that
 10 person's regular sexual partner, and includes known donors.
 11 (c) "Donor reproductive tissue" means any tissue from the reproductive
 12 tract intended for use in artificial insemination or any other assisted
 13 reproductive technology procedure. This includes, but is not limited
 14 to, semen, oocytes, embryos, spermatozoa, spermatids.
 15 (d) "Recipient" means a person who receives reproductive tissue from a
 16 donor.
 17 (e) "Donor-conceived person" means a person purposely conceived
 18 through an assisted re