Takes Effect February 15, 2021
The Child-Parent Security Act which goes into effect in February 2021 legalizes the use of gestational surrogates in New York State. Surrogacy had been prohibited in the state, forcing male same-sex couples and other couples struggling with fertility who needed surrogacy to go to other states to build their families. The former legislation also did not clearly define who the legal parents are when a child is conceived by assisted reproductive technology via surrogacy.