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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 46. NEWBORN UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANK

31-46-1. Legislative findings.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. The General Assembly finds and declares that it shall be the public policy of this state to encourage the donation, collection, and storage of stem cells collected from postnatal tissue and fluid and to make such stem cells available for medical research and treatment; to promote principled and ethical stem cell research; and to encourage stem cell research with immediate clinical and medical applications.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-46-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 473, § 2/SB 148.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 1061; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.