HR 571 IH

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

February 4, 1999

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

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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