PRINTER'S NO. 343
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
376
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY ISAACSON, CIRESI, GIRAL, HANBIDGE, HILL-EVANS,
KINKEAD, KINSEY, MADDEN, O'MARA AND SANCHEZ, MARCH 14, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 14, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in sexual offenses, providing for the offense of
fertility fraud; in particular rights and immunities,
providing for damages in actions for fertility fraud; and, in
sentencing, further providing for applicability, for sexual
offenses and tier system and for period of registration.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3134. Fertility fraud.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits an offense if:
(1) the person is a health care practitioner as defined
in section 103 of the act of July 19, 1979 (P.L.130, No.48),
known as the Health Care Facilities Act;
(2) the person performs a fertility treatment on a
patient by using human reproductive material; and
(3) the person knowingly uses:
(i) the person's own human reproductive material
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