House Journal: Page 1071: Thursday, March 28, 2002
Hansen of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
to withdraw amendment H-8411 filed by Hansen, et al., on March 21,
2002.
Hansen of Pottawattamie offered the following amendment H-8451
filed by him and Myers of Johnson and moved its adoption:
H-8451
1 Amend Senate File 2118, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
3 1. By striking everything after the enacting
4 clause and inserting the following:
5 "Section 1. NEW SECTION. 707B.1 TITLE.
6 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the
7 "Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research Act".
8 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 707B.2 PURPOSE.
9 It is the purpose of this chapter to prohibit human
10 reproductive cloning for any purpose.
11 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 707B.3 DEFINITIONS.
12 As used in this chapter, unless the context
13 otherwise requires:
14 1. "Human cloning" means human asexual
15 reproduction, accomplished by introducing the genetic
16 material of a human somatic cell into an oocyte whose
17 nucleus has been removed or inactivated, to produce a
18 living organism with a human or predominantly human
19 genetic constitution.
20 2. "Human somatic cell" means a diploid cell,
21 having a complete set of chromosomes, obtained or
22 derived from a living or deceased human body at any
23 stage of development.
24 3. "Nuclear transplantation" means introducing the
25 nuclear material of a human somatic cell into a
26 fertilized or unfertilized oocyte from which the
27 nucleus has been or will be removed or inactivated.
28 4. "Oocyte" means the unfertilized human ovum.
29 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 707B.4 HUMAN CLONING -
30 PROHIBITIONS - EXCEPTIONS - PENALTY.
31 1. A person shall not intentionally or knowingly
32 do any of the following:
33 a. Perform or attempt to perform human cloning.
34 b. Participate in performing or in an attempt to
35 perform human cloning.
36 c. Transfer or receive, in whole or in part, to
37 ship, receive, or import the product of nuclear
38 transplantation for the purpose of human cloning.
39 d. Perform research on any fertilized oocyte,
40 unless the fertilized oocyte was created for the
41 purpose of in vitro fertilization, in excess of the
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