A5046 (2025-26 session)

NY State bill

Creates a private right of action for fertility fraud; adds a health care practitioner using human reproductive material from the practitioner or from a donor knowing or who reasonably should have known that such patient had not expressly consented to such use, to the crime of aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree; relates to the time in which to commence actions relating to fertility fraud; includes fertility fraud in the definition of professional misconduct for physicians, physician's assistants and specialist assistants.

Title
Relates to aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree and creating a private right of action for fertility fraud; relates to the statute of limitations for such claim
Type
New York State Assembly bill
Session
2025-26 session
Status
In Assembly Committee
Latest action date
2026-01-07
In committee
Codes
Introduced
2025-02-11
Law section
Penal Law

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Heard in committee

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