[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 938 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 938

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

                           February 26, 2003

   Mr. Paul 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 
2003''.

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 1 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 1 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 human 
asexual reproduction, accomplished by introducing nuclear material from 
one or more human somatic cells into a fertilized or unfertilized 
oocyte whose nuclear material has been removed or inactivated so as to 
produce a living organism (at any stage of development) that is 
genetically identical to an existing or previously existing human 
organism.
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