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

PRINTER'S NO.   866

                   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 AND SHUSTERMAN, MARCH 10, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, MARCH 10, 2025


                                  AN ACT
 1   Protecting an individual's choice to use assisted reproductive
 2      technology.
 3      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 4   hereby enacts as follows:
 5   Section 1.   Short title.
 6      This act shall be known and may be cited as the Preserving
 7   Access to Reproductive Efforts Non-Traditional Act.
 8   Section 2.   Definitions.
 9      The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
10   have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
11   context clearly indicates otherwise:
12      "Assisted reproductive technology."   Procreative procedures
13   that involve the laboratory handling of human eggs or
14   preembryos. The term includes in vitro fertilization embryo
15   transfer, gamete intrafallopian transfer, pronuclear stage
16   transfer, tubal embryo transfer and zygote intrafallopian
17   transfer.
 1   Section 3.   Interference prohibited.
 2      The Commonwealth may not interfere with the use of medically
 3   appropriate methods of assisted reproductive technology or the
 4   manner in which medically appropriate methods of assisted
 5   reproductive technology are provided to an individual.
 6   Section 4.   Construction.
 7      Any law enacted by the General Assembly after the effective
 8   date of this act shall be subject to section 3 unless the
 9   General Assembly expressly excludes that law from this act by
10   specific reference.
11   Section 5.   Effective date.
12      This act shall take effect immediately.




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