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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="589" measure-id="id113hr589" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-02-06" update-date="2013-02-22">
<title>To amend the National Organ Transplant Act to prevent the sale of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, and for other purposes.</title>
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<action-date>2013-02-06</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Amends the National Organ Transplant Act to prohibit acquiring, receiving, or otherwise transferring a cord blood unit (the neonatal blood collected from the placenta and umbilical cord of a single newborn baby) for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce.</p>]]></summary-text>
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