“To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit surrogacy arrangements for sex offenders, and for other purposes.”
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This section establishes in 18 U.S.C. §2250A criminal penalties of a fine, imprisonment for not more than 18 years, or both for (1) a sex offender required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) who uses an instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce to enter a surrogacy arrangement intending to exercise parental rights over the resulting child; and (2) any person who uses such an instrumentality to enter a surrogacy arrangement intending to exercise parental rights over the resulting child and commits a sex offense between entering the arrangement and the child's birth. The section defines surrogacy arrangement as an agreement under which one person carries a pregnancy not initiated at the time of the agreement, expects to relinquish parental rights over the child, and expects another person to exercise those rights (with sex offender and sex offense terms as defined in SORNA, 34 U.S.C. §20911).