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(Source: NBAC Report on Cloning Human Beings June 1997, pg. 104)

FEDERAL

S. 368, a bill to ban the use of federal funds for research with respect to the cloning of a human individual, defined as "the replication of a human individual by the taking of a cell with genetic material and the cultivation of the cell through the egg, embryo, fetal, and newborn stages into a new human individual."

H.R. 922, providing that "[n]one of the funds made available in any Federal law may be expended to conduct or support any project of research that involves the use of a human somatic cell for the process of producing a human clone."

H.R. 923, providing that "it shall be unlawful for any human person to use a human somatic cell for the process of producing a human clone."

STATE

Bills that

ban the use of governmental funds for any research using cloned cells or tissue

Alabama [A.B. 1082 (introduced April 23, 1997)

ban the use of governmental funds for cloning an entire individual

Missouri [1997 Mo. H.B. 824 (introduced March 6, 1997)]

Maryland [Md. H.J.R. 28 (introduced March 20, 1997)]

ban cloning an entire individual, regardless of funding source

Alabama [S.B. 511 (introduced March 7, 1997)]

California [Cal. S.B. 1344 (introduced March 11, 1997)]

Illinois [1997 Ill. H.B. 2235 (introduced March 10, 1997)]

Illinois [1997 Ill. S.B. 1829 (introduced March 7, 1997)]

New Jersey [N.J. A.B. 2849 (introduced March 24, 1997)]

New York [1997 S.B. 2877 (introduced February 26, 1997)]

North Carolina [S.B. 782 (introduced April 10, 1997]

Oregon [Ore. S. B. 1017 (introduced March 19, 1997)]

West Virginia [W. Va. S.B. 410 (introduced March 21, 1997)]

explicitly ban any research using cloned cells or tissue

California [A.B. 1251 (introduced Feb. 28, 1997)]

Florida [Fla. H.B. 1237 (introduced March 7, 1997)]

might unintentionally ban research using cloned tissue of cells

South Carolina [H.B. 3617 16-17-745 (B) (intro. March 11, 1997)]

New York [Assembly Bill 5383 (introduced March 4, 1997)]