Ark. Code § 5-13-212

Current with legislation from 2024 effective through May 3, 2024.
Section 5-13-212 - Fertility treatment abuse
(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Healthcare provider" means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of the practice of his or her profession;
(2) "Human reproductive material" means the same as defined in § 5-37-220; and
(3) "Unauthorized" means that a person receiving human reproductive material in an assisted reproduction procedure has not expressly consented to the use of the human reproductive material.
(b) A person commits fertility treatment abuse if the person is a healthcare provider who, in the course of performing an assisted reproduction procedure on a person, knowingly uses unauthorized human reproductive material.
(c) Fertility treatment abuse is a Class B felony.

Ark. Code § 5-13-212

Added by Act 2021, No. 609,§ 2, eff. 7/28/2021.