Chart I 
State Cloning Legislation 
State 
Reproductive 
“Therapeutic 
Prohibition 
Permanent 
Definition of “clonina" 
clonina ban 
” clonina 
ban 
of State 
Funds 
ban 
Arkansas 
Ark. Code 
§20-16-1001 
et. seq. 
X 
X 
X 
Asexual human 
reproduction, 
accomphshed by 
introducing the genetic 
material from one or more 
human somatic cells into 
a fertilized or unfertihzed 
oocyte whose nuclear 
material has been 
removed or inactivated so 
as to produce a living 
organism, at any stage of 
development, that is 
genetically virtually 
identical to an existing or 
previously existing 
human organism 
California 
Cal. Bus. & 
Prof. 
§16004, 
16105; Cal. 
Health & 
Safety 
§§24185- 
24187 
(2003) 
X 
X 
Nucleus transfer from a 
human cell from whatever 
source into a human or 
nonhuman egg cell from 
which the nucleus has 
been removed for the 
purpose of, or to implant, 
the resulting product to 
initiate a pregnancy that 
could result in the birth of 
a human being. 
Iowa 
Iowa Code 
§707B.l-.4 
(2003) 
X 
X 
X 
Human asexual 
reproduction, 
accomplished by 
introducing the genetic 
material of a human 
somatic cell into a 
fertilized or unfertihzed 
oocyte whose nucleus 
has been or will be 
removed or inactivated, 
to produce a hving 
organism with a human 
or predominantly human 
genetic constitution 
Louisiana 
La. Rev, 
Stat. Ann. 
§1299.36.1- 
.6 (2003) 
Sunset 
Provision: 
July 1, 2003 
X 
Does not 
prohibit use 
of state funds 
for scientific 
research or 
cell-based 
therapies 
that do not 
involve 
X 
Identical to Cahfomia 
219 
