H.R. 3: Motion to Recommit With Instructions

As printed on pages H389, H390 of the Record:

Mr. Burgess moves to recommit the bill (H.R. 3) to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment:

Page 4, line 11, strike the close quotation marks and the period at the end and insert the following:

``(e) Preventing Federal Support for Human Cloning.--

``(1) PROHIBITION.--In conducting or supporting research described in subsection (a), the Secretary may not award a grant to, enter into a contract with, or provide any other support to any entity (including any public or private entity and any Federal, State, or local agency) for such research, unless the entity provides assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that--

``(A) the entity has not conducted or supported, and will not conduct or support, any activity described in paragraph (2) during any fiscal year for which the grant, contract, or support is provided; and

``(B) any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such entity has not conducted or supported, and will not conduct or support, any activity described in paragraph (2) during any fiscal year for which the grant, contract, or support is provided.

``(2) ACTIVITIES.--The activities described in this paragraph are any research utilizing all or part of human embryonic stem cells from any cloned human.

``(f) Definitions.--In this section:

``(1) The term `asexual reproduction' means reproduction not initiated by the union of oocyte and sperm.

``(2) The term `cloned human' means an organism produced by human cloning.

``(3) The term `human cloning' means human asexual reproduction, accomplished by introducing nuclear material from one or more human somatic cells into a fertilized or unfertilized oocyte whose nuclear material has been removed or inactivated so as to produce a living organism (at any stage of development) that is genetically virtually identical to an existing or previously existing human organism.

``(4) The term `human embryo or embryos' has the meaning given to that term in section 509(b) of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Pub. L. 109-149; 119 Stat. 2833).

``(5) The term `human embryonic stem cell' means a cell derived from a human embryo or embryos.

``(6) The term `somatic cell' means a diploid cell (having a complete set of chromosomes) obtained or derived from a living or deceased human body at any stage of development.''.

This motion failed 189-238, with 8 not voting