To prohibit foreign nationals from entering into or enforcing surrogacy contracts in the United States, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9132 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9132 To prohibit foreign nationals from entering into or enforcing surrogacy contracts in the United States, 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. Gosar, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, 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 foreign nationals from entering into or enforcing surrogacy contracts in the United States, 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 ``Preventing International Surrogacy Exploitation Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are to-- (1) invalidate surrogate parentage contracts between prospective parents with citizenship or permanent residence in a foreign country and a surrogate mother in the United States; and (2) impose criminal penalties on surrogacy brokers who commercially facilitate such invalid agreements. (b) Findings.--Congress finds as follows: (1) Currently, unrestricted surrogacies allow foreign nationals, including those residing in adversarial countries to the United States, to obtain a surrogate mother transported to or residing in the United States for the purpose of giving birth to a child. (2) Upon receiving automatic United States citizenship, many infants born through an international surrogate contract are flown to adversarial countries to be raised abroad by their