HR 3495 IH

To prohibit Federal payments to any individual, business, institution, or organization that engages in human cloning.

December 13, 2001

Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. TERRY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

To prohibit Federal payments to any individual, business, institution, or organization that engages in human cloning.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Human Cloning Prevention Act of 2001'.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

(a) GENERAL RULE- Except as provided in subsection (b), no Federal agency shall--

(1) make any grant, contract, or other payment; or

(2) enter into any obligation for making any such grant, contract, or payment,

to any individual, business, institution, or organization that within the past one year has engaged in human cloning, or to any individual, business, institution, or organization that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with any individual, business, institution, or organization that within the past one year has engaged in human cloning.

(b) EXCEPTION- Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any payment a Federal agency is obligated to make.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

For purposes of this Act, the term `human cloning' means making an identical, or substantially identical, copy of the genetic material of an individual human being, living or deceased, including embryos and fetuses, for the cultivation of human cells which could develop into a new individual human being.

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