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[CITE: 42USC3515b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
           CHAPTER 43--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3515b. Prohibition on funding certain experiments involving 
        human participants
        
    None of the funds appropriated by this Act or subsequent Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Acts shall be used to pay for any research program or 
project or any program, project, or course which is of an experimental 
nature, or any other activity involving human participants, which is 
determined by the Secretary or a court of competent jurisdiction to 
present a danger to the physical, mental, or emotional well-being of a 
participant or subject of such program, project, or course, without the 
written, informed consent of each participant or subject, or a 
participant's parents or legal guardian, if such participant or subject 
is under eighteen years of age. The Secretary shall adopt appropriate 
regulations respecting this section.

(Pub. L. 102-394, title II, Sec. 211, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1812.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to this section were contained in the following 
prior appropriation acts:
    Pub. L. 102-170, title II, Sec. 211, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 1127.
    Pub. L. 101-517, title II, Sec. 212, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2209.
    Pub. L. 101-166, title II, Sec. 215, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1178.
