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S.790
Title: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human cloning.
Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 4/26/2001)      Cosponsors: 13
Latest Major Action: 4/26/2001 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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4/26/2001:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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COSPONSORS(13), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Bennett, Robert F. - 8/1/2001 [UT] Sen Bond, Christopher S. - 4/26/2001 [MO]
Sen Bunning, Jim - 9/21/2001 [KY] Sen DeWine, Michael - 9/10/2001 [OH]
Sen Ensign, John E. - 5/16/2001 [NV] Sen Helms, Jesse - 6/5/2001 [NC]
Sen Hutchinson, Tim - 5/10/2001 [AR] Sen Inhofe, Jim - 9/10/2001 [OK]
Sen Kyl, Jon - 5/10/2001 [AZ] Sen Sessions, Jeff - 5/23/2001 [AL]
Sen Shelby, Richard C. - 6/5/2001 [AL] Sen Smith, Bob - 4/26/2001 [NH]
Sen Voinovich, George V. - 11/27/2001 [OH]
Sen Smith, Gordon - 8/3/2001(withdrawn - 10/15/2001) [OR]

SUMMARY AS OF:
4/26/2001--Introduced.

Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 - Prohibits any person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in such an attempt; (3) shipping or receiving the product of human cloning; or (4) importing such a product.

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Federal Government should advocate for and join an international effort to prohibit human cloning; and (2) the President should commission a study by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission or a successor group of the arguments for and against the use of cloning to produce human embryos solely for research.