[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9416 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9416

To recognize the right to assisted reproductive technology and to limit 
liability for certain actions committed during the course of providing 
                   assisted reproductive technology.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 27, 2024

Mr. Gottheimer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To recognize the right to assisted reproductive technology and to limit 
liability for certain actions committed during the course of providing 
                   assisted reproductive technology.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Securing Access to Fertility 
Everywhere Act''or as the ``SAFE Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY.

    (a) In General.--No individual acting under color of any statute, 
ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or 
the District of Columbia, may subject, or cause to be subjected, any 
citizen of the United States or other individual within the 
jurisdiction thereof to any undue burden on the right to use assisted 
reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization.
    (b) Limitation on Liability.--No individual acting under color of 
any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or 
Territory or the District of Columbia, may subject, or cause to be 
subjected, any citizen of the United States or other individual within 
the jurisdiction thereof to liability for wrongful death for non-
negligent accidents occurring during the processing, transporting, or 
storing of human embryonic or gamete tissues and cells created using 
assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, 
that cause unintended damage to the viability of a human embryo.
    (c) Definition.--The term ``assisted reproductive technology'' 
means all treatments or procedures which include the handling of human 
oocytes or embryos, including in vitro fertilization, gamete 
intrafallopian transfer, zygote intrafallopian transfer, and such other 
specific technologies as the Secretary may by rule determine.
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