Rep. Hogan was thrilled to participate in the signing ceremony for the Parentage Act, a bill updating Massachusetts laws on parental rights and privileges.
The legislation, which was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Maura Healey, aims to affirm legal, parental rights for families that go through non-traditional paths of having children, such as IVF or surrogacy. The bill spells out the conditions that must be met for non-biological parents to secure legal, parental rights, removing outdated vestiges of laws that treat some parents unequally.
The Parentage Act doesn’t just benefit the LGBTQ community — this law is good for everybody in the Commonwealth. It’s good for Massachusetts itself, making our state one of the best places to raise a family.
We are grateful for the teams of advocates, attorneys, assisted reproductive rights advocates, domestic abuse survivors, veterans, scholars and others — led by Arline Isaacson Polly Crozier GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders – GLAD and Massachusetts Parentage Act Coalition and especially all the brave parents and families who stepped forward to share their experiences and showed how necessary it was for us to update our laws
Rep. Hogan thanks her legislative colleagues Rep. Sarah Peake, Sen. Julian Cyr, Rep. Hannah Kane, Sen. Bruce Tarr, Judiciary Committee Chair Mike Day for his remarkable and tireless efforts in creating a path to yes for this bill and Speaker Mariano and HWM Chair Michlewitz.
