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Prohibits and penalizes certain international commercial surrogacy arrangements tied to persons or brokers affiliated with a “foreign entity of concern.” It makes those surrogacy contracts void and unenforceable when the surrogate is in the United States at birth (or is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) and orders that a child’s custody be decided under the surrogate’s State best‑interest law rather than by the surrogacy contract. The bill also defines terms (prospective parent, surrogate, surrogacy broker, foreign entity of concern), creates a rebuttable presumption about relinquishment of parental rights in covered cases, and makes it a federal crime for brokers who knowingly or recklessly arrange or execute these void surrogacy agreements.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced November 4, 2025 by Richard Lynn Scott · Last progress November 4, 2025
SAFE KIDS Act