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HB2313 • 2026

Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

Abortion Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Self, Deanna (064)
Last action
2026-05-15
Official status
05/15/2026 - Referred: Emerging Issues(H)
Effective date
2026-08-28

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-15 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Referred: Emerging Issues(H)

  2. 2026-01-08 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Read Second Time (H)

  3. 2026-01-07 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Read First Time (H)

  4. 2025-12-09 Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Senate

    Prefiled (H)

Official Summary Text

Prohibits the use of fetal organs or tissue resulting from elective abortions for medical, scientific, research, experimental, or therapeutic purposes or any other use

Current Bill Text

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2313
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE SELF .
6042H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o repeal section 188.036, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
abortion.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 188.036, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 188.036, to read as follows:
188.036. 1. No physician shall perform an abortion on a woman if the physician
2 knows that the woman conceived the unborn child for the purpose of providing fetal or gans or
3 tissue for medical transplantation to herself or another , and the physician knows that the
4 woman intends to procure the abortion to utilize those or gans or tissue for such use for herself
5 or another .
6 2. No person shall utilize the fetal or gans or tissue resulting from an abortion for
7 medical transplantation, if the person knows that the abortion was procured for the purpose of
8 utilizing those or gans or tissue for such use.
9 3. No person shall of fer any inducement, monetary or otherwise, to a woman or a
10 prospective father of an unborn child for the purpose of conceiving an unborn child for the
11 medical, scientific, experimental or therapeutic use of the fetal or gans or tissue.
12 4. No person shall offer any inducement, monetary or otherwise, to the mother or
13 father of an unborn child for the purpose of procuring an abortion for the medical, scientific,
14 experimental or therapeutic use of the fetal or gans or tissue.
15 5. No person shall knowingly of fer or receive any valuable consideration for the fetal
16 or gans or tissue resulting from an abortion, provided that nothing in this subsection shall
EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
17 prohibit payment for burial or other final disposition of the fetal remains, or payment for a
18 pathological examination, autopsy or postmortem examination of the fetal remains.
19 6. No person or entity shall utilize the fetal organs or tissue res ulting fro m an
20 elective abortion for medical, scientific, res earch , experimental, or therapeutic purposes
21 or any other use.
22 [ 6. ] 7. If any provision in this section or the application thereof to any person,
23 circumstance or period of gestation is held invalid, such invalidity shall not af fect the
24 provisions or applications which can be given ef fect without the invalid provision or
25 application, and to this end the provisions of this section are declared severable.
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