I think this requirement is highly objectionable. To me, if they require this, then before they let ANY person who delivers a baby leave the hospital (or otherwise go home with their baby), they should require a police check and child protection check - there is no real difference. In fact, the true equivalent would be requiring OBs & GPs to require their patients to obtain these records as soon as a pregnancy is confirmed. Just because one needs help getting pregnant, doesn't mean that they should have to undergo some higher scrutiny. I don't even see how they could argue costs/money - as it costs no less for the state to intervene where necessary when a non-IVF baby is involved than when an IVF baby is involved - and the government provides the same medical coverage for pregnancy-related medical care to mothers of non-IVF babies and IVF babies. AND this is a State requirement - but it's not the State that funds IVF treatments but the federal government!
I do not agree with this legislation. I think the argument is that the government is providing funds to assist the conception/pregnancy, and therefore must be seen to be fulfilling their responsibilities by doing the police checks. Parents conceiving without funded assistance are doing it themselves and therefore they assume the responsibility for their actions.

This argument falls down, when as you pointed out, the State is requiring the checks when they are not the ones funding the assistance. (Unless they administer the funding for the federal government and are using this angle)

I still can't believe it got through.