Rada’s Health Care Committee recommends adopting bill on same-sex partnerships

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Medical Care and Medical Insurance recommends adopting a bill on same-sex partnerships.

This is stated in the conclusion of the committee to bill No. 9103, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

According to the decision, the Health Care Committee protection recommends the specialized committee for the relevant bill - on legal policy issues to recommend to the parliament to adopt the legislative initiative in the first reading.

At the same time, the committee recommended adopting the bill taking into account comments and suggestions from the Ministry of Health and the Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Ministry of Health proposes that a registered partner should not be equated with close relatives for the purposes of the Civil Code, it is necessary, in the opinion of the agency, to define "registered partners" in the definition of terms for the purposes of the bill.

The Ombudsman suggests that the norms proposed by the bill, which determine the legal and organizational foundations of registered partnerships, legal status, personal non-property and property rights and obligations of registered partners, the procedure and consequences of state registration and the procedure for terminating a registered partnership, should be included in a separate section of the Family Code.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice changed their positions and supported the bill on registered partnerships, including partnerships of same-sex couples.

On May 9, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, Inna Sovsun, said that she is confident in the parliament's approval of the bill on same-sex partnerships.

Sovsun also explained how a same-sex partnership differs from marriage.

We will remind, on March 15, 18 members of the Verkhovna Rada proposed to the parliament to create an institute of registered partnerships.