The fact that many of his ideas likely would hit the end of the 2010 legislative road this week did not deter Sen. David Hartsuch, R-Bettendorf.

His work product includes a measure saying states that currently ban same-sex marriage would not have to give legal recognition to residents of the same gender who traveled to Iowa to get married and then returned to their home state.

“It means that other states and jurisdictions don’t have to give full faith and credit to marriages that are solemnized in Iowa,” he said of Senate 2176.

Another bill (S.F. 2169) Hartsuch offered that has not generated much interest would exclude gametes, testes and ovaries from the definitions of body parts or tissues that could be donated under Iowa’s revised uniform anatomical gift act.

Subsequent to that act, Hartsuch — who also is a licensed physician — said the language has been interpreted to allow family members to donate reproductive cells of a deceased person, such as sperm that could be used to impregnate another person.

“This is really to remedy what I call an unintended consequence of that bill,” he said. “I believe that a dead person shouldn’t be reproducing, basically.”

Even if the bill fails to survive Friday’s funnel deadline, Hartsuch said it was important to bring the issue to public light and spur discussion that eventually could lead to a successful outcome in the future.