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Amend CSSB 1652 (House committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 1 of the bill 
and renumbering the remaining SECTIONS of ARTICLE 1 as appropriate:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.970 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.970.  LIMIT ON FUNDING OF INSTITUTION CONDUCTING 
HUMAN CLONING.  (a) In this section:
		(1)  "Appropriated money" means money appropriated by 
the legislature through the General Appropriations Act or other 
law.
		(2)  "Human cloning" means the use of human somatic 
cell nuclear transfer technology to produce a human embryo.  The 
term does not include scientific research in the use of nuclear 
transfer or other cloning techniques to produce:
			(A)  molecules;                                                       
			(B)  DNA;                                                             
			(C)  cells other than human embryos;                                  
			(D)  tissues;                                                         
			(E)  organs;                                                          
			(F)  plants; or                                                       
			(G)  animals other than humans.                                       
		(3)  "Human embryo" means a living organism with a full 
or nearly full human genetic composition in the earliest stages of 
development, including the one-cell stage.
		(4)  "Human somatic cell" means a cell of a developing 
or fully developed, living or deceased, human being that is not a 
sperm or egg cell.
		(5)  "Human somatic cell nuclear transfer" means the 
transfer of the genetic material of a human somatic cell into a 
fertilized or unfertilized egg cell whose genetic material has been 
removed or rendered inert.
	(b)  An institution of higher education may not receive or 
expend appropriated money if the institution engages in human 
cloning.