Virginia House Bill 1259 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-07 - Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Recognition of embryo adoptions. Provides that a legal embryo custodian may relinquish all legal rights to and legal responsibilities for an embryo through a written contract to an intended recipient parent prior to an embryo transfer, thus making a child born to such intended recipient parent the legal adoptive child of the intended recipient parent. In addition to the written contract between parties, the bill provides for an expedited adoption process for an intended recipient parent prior to the birth of a child or following the birth of a child and provides that an adoptive parent as a result of an embryo transfer may be issued a certificate of live birth or of fetal demise, as appropriate, when the child is born. The bill provides definitions of terms.

Embryo adoptions; recognition, issuance of birth certificate.

Del. Robert Marshall [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-07	House	Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2014-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
2014-02-04	House	Assigned Courts sub: Constitutional Law
2014-01-17	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-17	House	Presented and ordered printed 14104167D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	2	1200	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	1200.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB1259
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB1259+hil