PRINTER'S NO. 2856
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2029
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY ISAACSON, HELM, DELLOSO, FRANKEL, HILL-EVANS,
HOWARD AND KINSEY, NOVEMBER 14, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 14, 2019
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
registration of sexual offenders, 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:
§ 3133. 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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