SAFE KIDS Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7040 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7040 To prevent citizens of foreign adversarial nations from entering into or enforcing surrogacy contracts in the United States. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 13, 2026 Mr. Moore of Utah (for himself, Mr. Moolenaar, Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. Moran, Mr. Gosar, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Rulli, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Kennedy of Utah, Mr. McGuire, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Shreve, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Owens) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prevent citizens of foreign adversarial nations from entering into or enforcing surrogacy contracts in the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Stopping Adversarial Foreign Exploitation of Kids In Domestic Surrogacy Act'' or the ``SAFE KIDS Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) Citizens of foreign entities of concern are exploiting commercial surrogacy laws in the United States. (2) Many developed countries ban international commercial surrogacy altogether. The United States, however, presently allows even citizens of foreign entities of concern to solicit and pay financially distressed Americans to give birth to their children in the United States and then send these infants abroad. (3) This presents an acute national security threat, and recent events in Arcadia, California reveal that surrogacy is even being used to facilitate human trafficking. (b) Purposes.--This Act-- (1) acknowledges that foreign persons (including nationals of foreign en