SAFE KIDS Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Voids certain surrogacy agreements involving prospective parents from foreign entities of concern and criminalizes commercial brokering of those prohibited arrangements.
Who Benefits and How
Supporters of tighter controls on foreign-linked surrogacy could gain stronger legal tools to block and penalize arrangements involving foreign entities of concern.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Commercial surrogacy brokers and affected prospective parents from foreign entities of concern could face new legal restrictions and criminal liability.
Key Provisions
- Voids covered surrogacy agreements involving prospective parents from foreign entities of concern.
- Creates criminal penalties for brokers who knowingly or recklessly facilitate covered prohibited agreements.
- Directs custody disputes in covered cases to State best-interest standards without effect given to the invalid agreement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Voids certain surrogacy agreements involving prospective parents from foreign entities of concern and criminalizes commercial brokering of those prohibited arrangements.
Key Policy Areas
Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Immigration
Primary Purpose
Voids certain surrogacy agreements involving prospective parents from foreign entities of concern and criminalizes commercial brokering of those prohibited arrangements.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Advocates seeking tighter limits on foreign-linked surrogacy arrangements
- Surrogate parents whose covered agreements would be rendered unenforceable
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Commercial surrogacy brokers arranging covered prohibited agreements
- Prospective parents from foreign entities of concern seeking covered arrangements
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Rick Scott
R-FL | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Commercial surrogacy brokers facilitating covered prohibited agreements
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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