Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress <<NOTE: Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006. 42 USC 201 note.>> assembled,
This Act may be cited as the ``Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006''.
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)''.
Approved July 19, 2006.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 3504: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 152 (2006): July 17, considered in Senate. July 18, considered and passed Senate and House.
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