FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 209

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LEMBKE (85), PORTWOOD, THRELKELD, AVERY,

COOPER (155), PHILLIPS, ERVIN, RUPP, MUCKLER, DIXON, DOUGHERTY, NIEVES, BAKER,

 STEVENSON (Co-sponsors), LUETKEMEYER, SCHLOTTACH, BEARDEN, SMITH (14), WILSON (130),

 CROWELL, MYERS, MOORE, HARRIS (110), SANDER, ROARK, CUNNINGHAM (86), SUTHERLAND,

 SPRENG, SALVA, CRAWFORD, YAEGER, HOBBS AND JACKSON.

         Read 1^st time January 16, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

0753L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 565, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the cloning of human beings, with penalty provisions.

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 565.310, to read as follows:

            565.310. No person shall clone a human being. For purposes of this section, "clone" means to create, by artificial alteration of its genetic composition, a human being who is genetically identical to another human being. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a class B felony.