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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6208 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit surrogacy arrangements 
for sex offenders, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 
Mrs. LUNA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit surrogacy 
arrangements for sex offenders, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Surrogacy for Sex 
Offenders Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SURROGACY ARRANGEMENTS IN-
VOLVING SEX OFFENDERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 109B of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘§ 2250A. Surrogacy arrangements involving sex of-
fenders 
‘‘(a) A person who is a sex offender and, while re-
quired to register under the Sex Offender Registration and 
Notification Act, uses an instrumentality of interstate or 
foreign commerce to enter into a surrogacy arrangement, 
with respect to a child carried in pregnancy by another 
person in consequence of carrying out the arrangement, 
with the intent to exercise the parental rights with respect 
to the child, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned 
not more than 18 years, or both. 
‘‘(b) A person who uses an instrumentality of inter-
state or foreign commerce to enter into a surrogacy ar-
rangement, with respect to a child carried in pregnancy 
by another person in consequence of carrying out the ar-
rangement, with the intent to exercise the parental rights 
with respect to the child, and commits a sex offense, any 
part or element of which is committed in the period that 
begins with the use of the instrumentality and ends with 
the birth of the child, shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than 18 years, or both. 
‘‘(c) In this section: 
‘‘(1) The terms ‘sex offender’ and ‘sex offense’ 
have the meanings given the terms in section 111 of 
the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act 
(34 U.S.C. 20911). 
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‘‘(2) The term ‘surrogacy arrangement’ means 
any arrangement in which a person agrees to carry 
a child in pregnancy, which is not initiated at the 
time that the arrangement is made, with the expec-
tation that— 
‘‘(A) the person shall not exercise any pa-
rental rights with respect to the child; and 
‘‘(B) another person who agrees to the ar-
rangement shall exercise the parental rights 
with respect to the child.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for such chapter is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘2250A. Surrogacy arrangements involving sex offenders.’’. 
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