FRAUDULENT ASSISTED REPRODUCTION                                 H.B. 5713 (H-1)-5717 (S-1):

                                                                                                                                                                                SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5713 (Substitute H-1 as reported without amendment)

House Bill 5714 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

House Bill 5715 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

House Bill 5716 (Substitute H-3 as reported without amendment)

House Bill 5717 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

Sponsor:   Representative Karen Whitsett (H.B. 5713)

                           Representative Bronna Kahle (H.B. 5714)

                           Representative Kelly Breen (H.B. 5715)

                           Representative John R. Roth (H.B. 5716 & 5717)

House Committee:   Health Policy

Senate Committee:   Health Policy and Human Services

CONTENT

House Bill 5716 (H-3) would add Section 219g to the Michigan Penal Code to do the following:

 --     Prescribe a felony for knowingly, intentionally, or willfully engaging in a practice or act the person believed would provide false or misleading information related to an assisted reproduction procedure.

 --     Prescribe a felony for a health professional who knowingly or recklessly used or provided a human embryo or games, including his or her own, for assisted reproduction other than the specific embryo or gamete to which the patient expressly consented in writing.

 --     Specify that the use of an anonymous donor would not be a defense to a violation of Section 219g committed by a health professional.

House Bill 5713 (H-1) would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to prescribe the statute of limitations for an indictment for a violation of Section 219g of the Penal Code.

House Bill 5714 (S-1) would add Section 2981 to the Revised Judicature Act (RJA) to prescribe damages that a person who engaged in a false representation in assisted reproduction would be liable for to an individual who was injured by a false representation in assisted reproduction, and to allow any individual who was injured by a false representation to bring certain causes of action.

House Bill 5715 (S-2) would amend Part 161 (General Provisions) of the Public Health Code to include a violation of Section 219g or the Penal Code and a final order or judgment under Section 2981 of the RJA as grounds for disciplinary action, and to prescribe probation, limitation, denial, suspension, revocation, permanent revocation, restitution, or fine as a disciplinary action.

House Bill 5717 (S-1) would include the felonies prescribed in House Bill 5716 (H-3) in the sentencing guidelines in the Code of Criminal Procedure.

House Bills 5713 (H-1), 5714 (S-1), and 5717 (S-1) are tie-barred to House Bill 5716. House Bill 5715 (S-2) is tie-barred to House Bills 5714 and 5716. House Bills 5713 (H-1), 5716 (H-3), and 5717 (S-1) would take effect 90 days after their enactment.

MCL 767.24 (H.B. 5713)                                                 Legislative Analyst:   Stephen P. Jackson

Proposed MCL 600.2980 (H.B. 5714)

MCL 333.16221 & 333.16226 (H.B. 5715)

Proposed MCL 750.219g (H.B. 5716)

MCL 777.16l (H.B. 5717)

FISCAL IMPACT