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        S.3504

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act


 
 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the solicitation or 
 acceptance of tissue from fetuses gestated for research purposes, and 
                           for other purposes.

    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 ``Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF THE SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF TISSUE FROM 
              FETUSES GESTATED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.

    Section 498B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g-2) is 
amended--
        (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) 
    and (e), respectively;
        (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Solicitation or Acceptance of Tissue From Fetuses Gestated 
for Research Purposes.--It shall be unlawful for any person or entity 
involved or engaged in interstate commerce to--
        ``(1) solicit or knowingly acquire, receive, or accept a 
    donation of human fetal tissue knowing that a human pregnancy was 
    deliberately initiated to provide such tissue; or
        ``(2) knowingly acquire, receive, or accept tissue or cells 
    obtained from a human embryo or fetus that was gestated in the 
    uterus of a nonhuman animal.'';
        (3) in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), as so redesignated, by 
    striking ``(a) or (b)'' and inserting ``(a), (b), or (c)''; and
        (4) in paragraph (1) of subsection (e), as so redesignated, by 
    striking ``section 498A(f)'' and inserting ``section 498A(g)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.