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SF 2635 Senate Long Description

Providing a state policy for stem cell research; authorizing the +university of Minnesota to spend state appropriated funds on stem cell research; +permitting the derivation and use of human embryonic stem or germ cells and +human adult stem cells for research, requiring review of the research by an +approved institutional review board; requiring physicians, surgeons or other +health care providers treating patients for infertility to provide patients with information to allow patients to make informed and voluntary choices +relating to the disposition of human embryos remaining following fertility +treatment, specifying options; prohibiting the sale of fetal tissue for research+ purposes, penalty (ra)