I 
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 Na-
tional Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Amniotic and 
Placental Stem Cell Bank Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Research published on January 7, 2007, in 
‘‘Nature Biotechnology’’ has demonstrated the feasi-
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bility of using amniotic and placental stem cells for 
clinical applications. Stem cells, obtained from the 
amniotic fluid in routine prenatal testing or from 
placental tissue, are able to grow into liver, muscle, 
nerve, and other tissues that could be used to treat 
a variety of diseases. 
(2) Amniotic fluid and placenta contain stem 
cells that can be collected without risk to the donor, 
preserved through freezing for many years, and 
made available for research and treatment. 
(3) Amniotic and placental stem cells can be di-
rected into all three germ layers. 
(4) Unlike the findings of current embryonic 
stem cell research, amniotic and placental stem cells 
do not form tumors, and can be collected without 
damaging embryos. 
(5) Amniotic and placental stem cells can grow 
into a variety of cell types and multiply rapidly, can 
be preserved for self-use, do not form tumors, and 
can be banked for a population at large. 
(6) An inventory of 100,000 amniotic and pla-
cental stem cell units would provide enough cells of 
sufficient genetic diversity to provide 99 percent of 
the United States population with a perfect genetic 
match for transplantation. With over 4 million births 
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each year in the United States, a stem cell bank of 
this size would not take long to collect. 
(7) Recent scientific developments suggest that 
further research on amniotic and placental stem cells 
may lead to a greater understanding of certain 
chronic diseases and birth defects. This research 
might improve therapies for, and possibly cure, de-
bilitating diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, insu-
lin-dependent diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. 
These diseases cause a disproportionately large 
share of chronic disabilities and account for a large 
portion of health care expenditures in the United 
States. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL STEM CELL 
BANK. 
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘PART S—NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL 
STEM CELL BANK 
‘‘SEC. 399FF. NATIONAL AMNIOTIC AND PLACENTAL STEM 
CELL BANK. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall provide 
for the establishment and maintenance of a National 
Amniotic and Placental Stem Cell Bank (in this section 
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referred to as the ‘Bank’) for the purpose of obtaining, 
storing, and making available for research and treatment, 
human stem cells derived from amniotic fluid or placenta. 
‘‘(b) GENETIC DIVERSITY.—For the purpose of en-
suring genetic diversity, the Bank shall maintain a collec-
tion of not fewer than 100,000 samples of human stem 
cells derived from amniotic fluid or placenta. 
‘‘(c) INFORMED CONSENT.—The Bank may obtain a 
stem cell only if the woman providing the amniotic fluid 
or placenta makes a written statement of informed con-
sent. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $60,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2008 
through 2012.’’. 
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