SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1449

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES REID, BARRY, SECREST, HOLT, BLAND, BOWMAN, COOPER, ENZ, BEARDEN, MOORE, BARTELSMEYER, MYERS, PORTWOOD, SELBY, DEMPSEY,

TOWNLEY, SCOTT, MAYER, WRIGHT, NAEGER, LIESE, GAMBARO, MERIDETH, SHOEMYER (9),

KING, MARBLE, VILLA, PURGASON, O'CONNOR, GREEN (73), BONNER, HOPPE, BERKOWITZ,

RICHARDSON, LINTON, BALLARD, REINHART, BOATRIGHT, SCHWAB, BARNITZ, ROSS,

HEGEMAN, HOHULIN, LOGRASSO, SHIELDS, QUINN, CUNNINGHAM, CROWELL,

KELLY (144) (Co-sponsors), HUNTER, REYNOLDS, ROARK, LUETKEMEYER, DOLAN, HICKEY,

BERKSTRESSER, FROELKER, ROBIRDS, PHILLIPS, LUETKENHAUS, KELLEY (47), GEORGE,

TREADWAY, FOLEY, RECTOR, MURPHY, LONG, GASKILL, MARSH, HOLAND, GRIESHEIMER,

SHELTON, HENDRICKSON, LEGAN, HANAWAY, BYRD, BARNETT, CIERPIOT, KELLY (36),

SHOEMAKER (8), GREEN (15), BLACK, WARD, JETTON, MILLER, O'TOOLE AND ST. ONGE.

Read 1st time January 14, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

2550L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 565, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to human cloning, with a penalty provision.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 565, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 565.308, to read as follows:

565.308. 1. No person or entity, public or private, shall knowingly:

(1) Perform or attempt to perform human cloning;

(2) Participate in an attempt to perform human cloning; or

(3) Ship or receive for any purpose an embryo produced by human cloning or any product derived from such embryo.

2. No person or entity, public or private, shall knowingly import for any purpose an embryo produced by human cloning or any product derived from such embryo.

3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten years and a fine of not more than ten million dollars.

4. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to, in the case of a violation that involves the derivation of a pecuniary gain, a civil penalty of not less than one million dollars and not more than an amount equal to the amount of the gross gain multiplied by two, if that amount is greater than one million dollars.

5. As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Asexual reproduction", reproduction not initiated by the union of oocyte and sperm;

(2) "Human cloning", 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;

(3) "Somatic cell", a diploid cell having a complete set of chromosomes obtained or derived from a living or deceased human body at any state of development.


Missouri House of Representatives