[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 368 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 368

    To prohibit the use of Federal funds for human cloning research.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 1997

Mr. Bond (for himself and Mr. Ashcroft) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the use of Federal funds for human cloning research.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON CLONING RESEARCH.

    (a) In General.--No Federal funds may be used for research with 
respect to the cloning of a human individual.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``cloning'' 
means the replication of a human individual by the taking of a cell 
with genetic material and the cultivation of the cell through the egg, 
embryo, fetal, and newborn stages into a new human individual.
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