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- Under these bills, women signing contracts would have few rights and would be controlled by the beholder of their contract.
For these reasons, I cannot support these bills.”
Rep. St. Germaine, having reserved the right to explain her protest against the passage of the bill, made the following statement:
“Mr. Speaker and members of the House:
Surrogacy is already legal in Michigan. I am not opposed to surrogacy itself.
However, the surrogacy package did not include any safeguards for the exploitation of low-income women.”
Rep. Schmaltz, having reserved the right to explain her protest against the passage of the bill, made the following statement:
“Mr. Speaker and members of the House:
Surrogacy is already legal in Michigan, and it has brought joy to many couples. My opposition to these bills is not to surrogacy itself. Our current laws recognize that surrogate mothers and the babies they carry need safeguards to protect them from exploitation. Our law helps provide those safeguards by banning compensated surrogacy and the legally binding contracts that come with it. I cannot in good conscience vote for legislation the removes those protections.”
House Bill No. 5213, entitled
A bill to amend 2014 PA 366, entitled “Summary support and paternity act,” by amending section 3 (MCL 722.1493).
Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
- Excused
- Not recorded
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- Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
- Nays
- 53
- Not voting
- Not recorded
- Result
- passed
- Vote date
- 2023-11-09
- Vote number
- 537
- Yeas
- 56
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In The Chair: Moss
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to provide procedures to determine the paternity of children in certain circumstances; to allow acknowledgments, determinations, and judgments relating to paternity to be set aside in certain circumstances; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities; and to provide remedies,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5213, entitled
A bill to amend 2014 PA 366, entitled “Summary support and paternity act,” by amending section 3 (MCL 722.1493).
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Excused
- 1
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- The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Nays
- 15
- Not voting
- 0
- Result
- passed
- Vote date
- 2024-03-19
- Vote number
- 75
- Yeas
- 22