Prohibiting Abortion Industry’s Lucrative Loopholes Act

Prohibiting Abortion Industry's Lucrative Loopholes Act

This bill expands the prohibition on the sale or purchase of human fetal tissue in interstate commerce to include any payments associated with the transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of such tissue.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7798 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7798

To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit sale or 
              transactions relating to human fetal tissue.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2022

 Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself, Mr. Long, Mr. Norman, 
  Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Babin, Mr. 
 Mooney, Mr. Cline, Mr. Mast, Mr. Banks, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, 
  Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
Grothman, Mr. Hice of Georgia, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Clyde, Mr. 
    LaMalfa, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Good of Virginia, and Mr. 
  Wenstrup) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit sale or 
              transactions relating to human fetal tissue.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prohibiting Abortion Industry's 
Lucrative Loopholes Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING SALE OR TRANSACTIONS RELATING TO HUMAN FETAL 
              TISSUE.

    Section 498B(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289-
2(e)) is amended by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following 
new paragraph:
            ``(3) The term `valuable consideration' includes--
                    ``(A) any payment made or debt incurred;
                    ``(B) any gift, honorarium, or recognition of value 
                bestowed;
                    ``(C) any price, charge, or fee which is waived, 
                forgiven, reduced, or indefinitely delayed;
                    ``(D) any loan or debt which is canceled or 
                otherwise forgiven;
                    ``(E) the transfer of any item from one person to 
                another or provision of any service or granting of any 
                opportunity for which a charge is customarily made, 
                without charge or for a reduced charge; and
                    ``(F) any payments associated with the 
                transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, 
                quality control, or storage of human fetal tissue.''.
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