[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 571 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 571

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 1999

   Mr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


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

    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 
1999''.

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 payment,
to any business, institution, or organization that, within the past one 
year, has engaged in human cloning, or to any business, institution, or 
organization that controls, is controlled by, or is under common 
control with any 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, so as to cultivate 
one or more new human cells which could, if not otherwise engineered, 
develop into a new individual human being.
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