# 116-hr-6417: Protecting Cures Act of 2020

116-hr-6417, Protecting Cures Act of 2020, is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL); status Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-6417
- Congress: 116
- Title: Protecting Cures Act of 2020
- Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Introduced: 2020-03-31
- Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] (D-IL)
- Cosponsors: 22
- Policy area: Health
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Protecting Cures Act of 2020 This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from withholding funding, because of ethical considerations, for research activities that use human fetal tissue, provided that the research activities have been recommended for approval by an institutional review board and otherwise comply with existing laws concerning human fetal tissue. The bill also establishes that this research is not unethical by deeming the 1988 report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel as meeting relevant statutory requirements with respect to approving the ethical status of such research.

## Cosponsors (22)

- Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] (D-WI), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (D-NJ), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12] (D-NY), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] (D-CA), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1] (D-CO), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22] (D-FL), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] (D-WA), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] (D-CA), 2020-03-31T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2020-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carson, André [D-IN-7] (D-IN), 2020-04-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] (D-TX), 2020-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5] (D-CT), 2020-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6] (D-MD), 2020-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (D-TN), 2020-06-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] (D-RI), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] (D-FL), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7] (D-MA), 2020-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD), 2020-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2] (D-MA), 2020-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

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- 116-hr-7120: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020
- 116-hr-7092: Great American Outdoors Act
- 116-hr-2694: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
- 116-hr-2474: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019
- 116-hr-2420: National Museum of the American Latino Act

## Sources
- [116-hr-6417 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6417)

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- [116-hr-2474: Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-2474)
- [116-hr-2420: National Museum of the American Latino Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-2420)
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