Requires the promulgation of regulations relating to the commercial trade of human reproductive processes involving semen donation; limits the number of live births from a single semen donor; requires the commissioner to promulgate the regulations no later than six months after the act takes effect.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8173
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the
promulgation of regulations relating to the commercial trade of human
reproductive processes and limiting the number of live births from a
single semen donor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of section 4365 of the public
2 health law are renumbered subdivisions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and a new subdi-
3 vision 4 is added to read as follows:
4 4. The commissioner, in consultation with the transplant council,
5 shall promulgate regulations on the commercial trade of human reproduc-
6 tive processes involving semen donation. Such regulations shall include,
7 but shall not be limited to:
8 (a) governing limits on the number of live births conceived by a
9 single donor, which shall not exceed ten live births; and
10 (b) the establishment of a central tracking registry of semen donor
11 information, as reported by reproductive tissue banks,
12 insemination/implantation sites and semen processing facilities in the
13 state. Such registry shall provide a means for gathering and maintain-
14 ing accurate information on the:
15 (i) number of live births conceived from a single donor;
16 (ii) health information of the donor at the time of the donation; and
17 (iii) other information deemed appropriate by the commissioner.
18 In addition, regulations shall maintain the anonymity of the donor and
19 the offspring and govern access to information maintained by the regis-
20 try.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the commis-
22 sioner of health shall promulgate regulations no later than six months
23 after this act shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13093-01-9
