§2718.1. Definition of terms

As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section unless otherwise provided for or unless the context otherwise indicates:

(1) "Compensation" means a payment of money, objects, services, or anything else having monetary value. Compensation shall not include reimbursement of actual expenses, as provided for in R.S. 9:2720.5(B)(3), to the gestational carrier or payment for goods or services incurred by the intended parents as a result of the pregnancy and that would not have been incurred but for the pregnancy.

(2) "Gamete" means either a sperm or an egg.

(3) "Genetic gestational carrier" means the process by which a woman attempts to carry and give birth to a child using her own gametes and either the gametes of a person who intends to parent the child or donor gametes, when there is an agreement to relinquish the custody of and all rights and obligations to the child.

(4) "Gestational carrier" means a woman who agrees to engage in a process by which she attempts to carry and give birth to a child born as a result of an in utero transfer of a human embryo to which she makes no genetic contribution.

(5) "In utero embryo transfer" means the medical procedure whereby the genetic mother's egg is fertilized with the sperm of the genetic father, with the resulting embryo transferred into the uterus of the gestational carrier.

(6) "Intended parents" means a married couple who each exclusively contribute their own gametes to create their embryo and who enter into an enforceable gestational carrier contract, as defined in this Chapter, with a gestational carrier pursuant to which the intended parents will be the legal parents of the child resulting from an in utero embryo transfer.

Acts 2016, No. 494, §1.