The Protecting Kids from Creeps Act prohibits surrogacy agencies from facilitating surrogacy agreements involving individuals required to register as sex offenders. The bill imposes criminal penalties on surrogacy agencies, their employees, and sex offenders who participate in such arrangements, with prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years depending on the level of knowledge or recklessness involved. Surrogacy agencies convicted under this law would lose their tax-exempt status and federal funding eligibility, and any surrogacy agreements made in violation would be void and unenforceable. When such agreements are voided, custody of any resulting child would be determined by state courts based on the child's best interests rather than the surrogacy contract. The bill does not specify funding amounts or implementation timelines but establishes these prohibitions as federal criminal law under existing child protection statutes.
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