Purpose: Calendar No. 334 
To extend National Institutes of Health guide- 
lines to all research involving recombinant DNA 
and to establish a Commission to study such re- 
search. 
Arndt No. 1713 
95th CONGRESS 
2d Session 
S. 1217 
IN THE SENATE OE THE UNITED STATES 
March 1 (legislative day, February 6), 1978 
Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed 
AMENDMENT 
Intended to be proposed by Mr. Kennedy to S. 1217, a bill to 
regulate activities involving recombinant deoxyribonucleic 
acid, viz: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert in 
lieu thereof the following : 
1 SHORT TITLE 
2 Section 1 . This Act may be cited as the “Recombi- 
3 nant DNA Act of 1978”. 
4 findings 
5 Sec. 2. The Congress finds that — 
6 (a) research and other activities involving recom- 
7 binant DNA will improve the understanding of funda- 
8 mental biological processes ; 
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