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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1892 

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the 

establishment and maintenance of a National Amniotic and Placental 

Stem Cell Bank. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 17, 2007 

Mr. LIPINSKI (for himself, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. SHULER, Mr. ELLSWORTH, 

Mr. MELANCON, and Mr. DONNELLY) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 

provide for the establishment and maintenance of a National Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Amniotic and 

5 Placental Stem Cell Bank Act of 2007’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds as follows: 

8 (1) Research published on January 7, 2007, in 

9 ‘‘Nature Biotechnology’’ has demonstrated the feasiVerDate Aug 31 2005 23:47 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1892.IH H1892

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1 bility of using amniotic and placental stem cells for 

2 clinical applications. Stem cells, obtained from the 

3 amniotic fluid in routine prenatal testing or from 

4 placental tissue, are able to grow into liver, muscle, 

5 nerve, and other tissues that could be used to treat 

6 a variety of diseases. 

7 (2) Amniotic fluid and placenta contain stem 

8 cells that can be collected without risk to the donor, 

9 preserved through freezing for many years, and 

10 made available for research and treatment. 

11 (3) Amniotic and placental stem cells can be di12 rected into all three germ layers. 

13 (4) Unlike the findings of current embryonic 

14 stem cell research, amniotic and placental stem cells 

15 do not form tumors, and can be collected without 

16 damaging embryos. 

17 (5) Amniotic and placental stem cells can grow 

18 into a variety of cell types and multiply rapidly, can 

19 be preserved for self-use, do not form tumors, and 

20 can be banked for a population at large. 

21 (6) An inventory of 100,000 amniotic and pla22 cental stem cell units would provide enough cells of 

23 sufficient genetic diversity to provide 99 percent of 

24 the United States population with a perfect genetic 

25 match for transplantation. With over 4 million births 


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1 each year in the United States, a stem cell bank of 

2 this size would not take long to collect. 

3 (7) Recent scientific developments suggest that 

4 further research on amniotic and placental stem cells 

5 may lead to a greater understanding of certain 

6 chronic diseases and birth defects. This research 

7 might improve therapies for, and possibly cure, de8 bilitating diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, insu9 lin-dependent diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. 

10 These diseases cause a disproportionately large 

11 share of chronic disabilities and account for a large 

12 portion of health care expenditures in the United 

13 States. 

14 SEC. 3. NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL STEM CELL 

15 BANK. 

16 Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 

17 241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol18 lowing: 

19 ‘‘PART S—NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL 

20 STEM CELL BANK 

21 ‘‘SEC. 399FF. NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL STEM 

22 CELL BANK. 

23 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall provide 

24 for the establishment and maintenance of a National 

25 Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank (in this section 


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1 referred to as the ‘Bank’) for the purpose of obtaining, 

2 storing, and making available for research and treatment, 

3 human stem cells derived from amniotic fluid or placenta. 

4 ‘‘(b) GENETIC DIVERSITY.—For the purpose of en5 suring genetic diversity, the Bank shall maintain a collec6 tion of not fewer than 100,000 samples of human stem 

7 cells derived from amniotic fluid or placenta. 

8 ‘‘(c) INFORMED CONSENT.—The Bank may obtain a 

9 stem cell only if the woman providing the amniotic fluid 

10 or placenta makes a written statement of informed con11 sent. 

12 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To 

13 carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro14 priated $60,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2008 

15 through 2012.’’. 

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