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

February 26, 2003

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

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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