BILL NUMBER: ABX2 12	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Grove, Jones, Mathis, and Wagner)

                        AUGUST 17, 2015

   An act to amend Section 125320 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to human tissue.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 12, as introduced, Patterson. Cadaveric fetal tissue.
   Existing law prohibits a person from knowingly, for valuable
consideration, purchasing or selling embryonic or cadaveric fetal
tissue for research purposes, pursuant to specified provisions of
law. Existing law, for the purpose of this provisions, excludes from
the definition of "valuable consideration" reasonable payment for the
removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control,
storage, transplantation, or implantation of a part.
   This bill would, for the purpose of that provision, instead
include in the definition of "valuable consideration" all forms of
payment, including, but not limited to, payment for the removal,
processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage,
transplantation, or implantation of a part. The bill would also
prohibit public funds from being used to support any facility that
furnishes cadaveric fetal tissue for research.
   The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, an initiative
measure approved by the voters at the November 2, 2004, statewide
general election as Proposition 71, provides that the Legislature may
amend the nonbond statutory provisions of that act to enhance the
ability of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to
further the purposes of the grant and loan programs created by that
act, with a 70% vote of each house and compliance with specified
procedural requirements.
   Because this bill would amend certain provisions of the act, it
would require for passage a 70% vote.
   Vote: Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated
local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 125320 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   125320.  (a)  A person  may   shall  not
knowingly, for valuable consideration, purchase or sell embryonic or
cadaveric fetal tissue for research purposes pursuant to this
chapter.
   (b)  For purposes of this section, "valuable consideration"
 does not include reasonable   includes all
forms of payment, including, but not limited to,  payment for
the removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control,
storage, transplantation, or implantation of a part.
   (c)  Embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue may be donated for
research purposes pursuant to this chapter. 
   (d) Notwithstanding any other law, public funds shall not be used
to support any facility that furnishes cadaveric fetal tissue for
research purposes.