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PUBLIC LAW 109–129—DEC. 20, 2005

Public Law 109–129 109th Congress An Act Dec. 20, 2005 [H.R. 2520]

Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005. 42 USC 201 note. 42 USC 274k note. Contracts.

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To provide for the collection and maintenance of human cord blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and research, and to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program.

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 ‘‘Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005’’. SEC. 2. CORD BLOOD INVENTORY.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall enter into one-time contracts with qualified cord blood banks to assist in the collection and maintenance of 150,000 new units of high-quality cord blood to be made available for transplantation through the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and to carry out the requirements of subsection (b). (b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall require each recipient of a contract under this section— (1) to acquire, tissue-type, test, cryopreserve, and store donated units of cord blood acquired with the informed consent of the donor, as determined by the Secretary pursuant to section 379(c) of the Public Health Service Act, in a manner that complies with applicable Federal and State regulations; (2) to encourage donation from a genetically diverse population; (3) to make cord blood units that are collected pursuant to this section or otherwise and meet all applicable Federal standards available to transplant centers for transplantation; (4) to make cord blood units that are collected, but not appropriate for clinical use, available for peer-reviewed research; (5) to make data available, as required by the Secretary and consistent with section 379(d)(3) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274k(d)(3)), as amended by this Act, in a standardized electronic format, as determined by the Secretary, for the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program; and (6) to submit data in a standardized electronic format for inclusion in the stem cell therapeutic outcomes database maintained under section 379A of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by this Act. (c) RELATED CORD BLOOD DONORS.—

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