[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6313 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6313

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize knowingly 
  preventing the implantation of certain human embryos, and for other 
                               purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2016

 Mr. Mooney of West Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize knowingly 
  preventing the implantation of certain human embryos, 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 ``Providing Certainty for Progenitors 
Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF LIVING HUMAN EMBRYOS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 90A of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1842. Protection of living human embryos
    ``(a) Offense.--Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign 
commerce, having physical custody of a living human embryo, refuses to 
release the embryo for implantation in a willing implantee at the 
request of one of the progenitors of that embryo shall be fined under 
this title or imprisoned not more than 3 months, or both.
    ``(b) Exception for Progenitor.--A progenitor of the embryo that is 
not implanted may not be prosecuted under this section.
    ``(c) Progenitor.--The term `progenitor' means any individual who 
provides an egg or a sperm cell from which the embryo is created.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 90A of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``Sec. 1842. Protection of living human embryos.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
                                 <all>