PRINTER'S NO. 2610
No. 1990 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY VEON, ROONEY, DALEY, BEBKO-JONES, RUBLEY, JOSEPHS,
CURRY, YOUNGBLOOD, STURLA, C. WILLIAMS, FRANKEL, FREEMAN,
PALLONE AND TRELLO, OCTOBER 3, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
OCTOBER 3, 2001
AN ACT
1 Permitting nontherapeutic experimentation for medical procedures
2 under certain conditions; and making a repeal.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Short title.
6 This act shall be known and may be cited as the
7 Nontherapeutic Medical Procedure Act.
8 Section 2. Medical procedures permitted.
9 Notwithstanding the provisions of 18 Pa.C.S. § 3216 (relating
10 to fetal experimentation) or any other act, nontherapeutic
11 experimentation or nontherapeutic medical procedures on an
12 unborn child, as described in 18 Pa.C.S. § 3216, shall be
13 permitted to the same extent and shall be subject to the same
14 requirements and conditions as they are permitted under policies
15 adopted by the National Institute of Health pertaining to
16 Federal funding of stem cell research.
17 Section 3. Repeal.
1 All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are
2 inconsistent with this act.
3 Section 4. Effective date.
4 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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