To prohibit surrogacy agencies from facilitating surrogacy contracts with sex offenders, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9131 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9131 To prohibit surrogacy agencies from facilitating surrogacy contracts with sex offenders, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 3, 2026 Mr. Perry (for himself, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, Mr. Burchett, Mr. Fine, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Self, and Mr. Steube) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit surrogacy agencies from facilitating surrogacy contracts with sex offenders, and for other purposes. 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 ``Protecting Kids from Creeps Act''. SEC. 2. PROHIBITION. Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Sec. 2260B. Prohibition on sex offenders obtaining a child through surrogacy ``(a) Surrogacy Agency.--Whoever, being a surrogacy agency, knowingly or recklessly facilitates a surrogacy agreement in which a party to that agreement is a sex offender shall be-- ``(1) in the case of an agency acting recklessly, fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 10 years; and ``(2) in the case of an agency acting knowingly, fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 20 years. ``(b) Employees.--Whoever, being an employee of a surrogacy agency, knowingly facilitates a surrogacy agreement in which a party to that agreement is a sex offender shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 20 years. ``(c) Sex Offender.--Whoever, being a sex offender, knowingly enters int