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Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006
Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) --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.

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