Safe RESEARCH Act

Bill: 114-hr-3729
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-10-08
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion

Medical research

Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Research administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2015-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-10-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Safe Responsible Ethical Scientific Endeavors Assuring Research for Compassionate Healthcare Act or the Safe RESEARCH Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from a spontaneous or induced abortion in research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (A spontaneous abortion is the death of a fetus before the age of viability, also known as a miscarriage.) Research with human fetal tissue conducted or supported by the NIH must meet requirements, including informed consent requirements for the donor and researcher, currently applied only to research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3729 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 8, 2015 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Olson , and Mr. Duffy ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain research on human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Responsible Ethical Scientific Endeavors Assuring Research for Compassionate Healthcare Act or the Safe RESEARCH Act . 2. Prohibiting certain research on human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion Section 498A of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 289g–1 ) is amended— (1) in the section heading, by striking Research on transplantation of fetal tissue and inserting Research with fetal tissue ; (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) Establishment of program (1) In general The Secretary may conduct or support research with human fetal tissue. The Secretary shall conduct or support any such research in accordance with this section. (2) Source of tissue Human fetal tissue may be used in research carried out under paragraph (1) only if the tissue is obtained pursuant to a stillbirth. ; (3) in subsection (b)(2)— (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; (4) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking may have been obtained pursuant to a spontaneous or induced abortion or pursuant to a stillbirth and inserting has been obtained pursuant to a stillbirth ; and (5) in subsection (g), by striking after a spontaneous or induced abortion, or .