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S. 303 (108th): Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003
- Introduced:
- Feb 05, 2003 (108th Congress, 2003–2004)
- Sponsor:
- Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
- Status:
- Died (Referred to Committee)
- See Instead:
- This bill was re-introduced as S. 876 (109th) on Apr 21, 2005.
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.
Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
2/5/2003--Introduced.
Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation for the purpose of human cloning in the United States or elsewhere; or (3) exporting to a foreign country an unfertilized blastocyst if such country does not prohibit human cloning.
Requires the Comptroller General to report to the congressional judiciary committees on: (1) actions taken to enforce such prohibitions; (2) actions of State attorneys general to enforce similar State laws; (3) the Federal-State-local government coordination of enforcement actions; and (4) international laws relating to human cloning.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require research involving nuclear transplantation to be conducted in accordance with applicable Federal standards for the protection of human subjects.
Prohibits:
(1) a somatic cell nucleus from being transplanted into a human oocyte (egg) that has undergone or will undergo fertilization;
(2) an unfertilized blastocyst from being maintained after more than 14 days from its first cell division, not counting storage times at temperatures less than zero degrees centigrade;
(3) an oocyte from being used in nuclear transplantation research unless donated voluntarily with the donor's informed consent;
(4) an oocyte or unfertilized blastocyst from being acquired, received, or transferred for valuable consideration in interstate commerce; or
(5) the conduct in a laboratory of nuclear transplantation in which human oocytes are subject to assisted reproductive technology treatments or procedures.
House Republican Conference Summary
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The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:
United States Code
The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)
- Title 42: THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Chapter 6A: PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
- Subchapter III: NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
- Part A: National Institutes of Health
- Section 281: Organization of National Institutes of Health
- Other Citations
- 18 U.S.C. 301(a)
- 18 U.S.C. 301
Other Citations
- 18 U.S.C. Chapter 16
- 18 U.S.C. Chapter 46