FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 718

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BARTLE, MYERS, SECREST, CUNNINGHAM (Co-sponsors),

ROBIRDS, HUNTER, CRAWFORD, REID, PHILLIPS, LEVIN, NORDWALD, BARTELSMEYER,

BEARDEN, LUETKEMEYER, CIERPIOT, ENZ, NAEGER, KING, KELLEY (47),

MOORE AND BURTON.

Read 1st time February 8, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

1633L.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. It shall be unlawful for any person to clone a human being. For purposes of this section, "to clone" means to create, by artificial alteration of its genetic composition, a human being which is genetically identical to another human being. Violation of this section shall be a class B felony.


Missouri House of Representatives