[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[S. 3504 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
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.