{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-13-212","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 5-13-212","heading":"Fertility treatment abuse","body":"(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. Added by Act 2021, No. 609,§ 2, eff. 7/28/2021.\n\n(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.\n\n(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;\n\n(2) \"Human reproductive material\" means the same as defined in § 5-37-220 ; and\n\n(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.\n\n(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.\n\n(c) Fertility treatment abuse is a Class B felony.","path":["AR Code","Title 5","Chapter 13","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"8ff2057a32f40e2e1adcd3799869223ef160cad2a657bf491732b14293eda384","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-13-211","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-13-213"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}