[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3495 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3495

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2001

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

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                                 A BILL


 
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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