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 entities of concern) are abusing surrogacy agreements to exploit women in the United States and to obtain United States citizenship for their children; (2) invalidates surrogate parentage contracts between prospective parents from foreign entities of concern and a surrogate mother in the United States; and (3) imposes criminal penalties on surrogacy brokers who commercially facilitate such invalid agreements.