Commonsense Consumption Act of 2007

A bill to prevent legislative and regulatory functions from being usurped by civil liability actions brought or continued against food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, advertisers, sellers, and trade associations for claims of injury relating to a person's weight gain, obesity, or any health condition associated with weight gain or obesity.

5/7/2007--Introduced.
Commonsense Consumption Act of 2007 - Prohibits new, and requires dismissal of pending, civil actions by any person against a manufacturer, marketer, distributor, advertiser, or seller of food, or a trade association, for any injury related to a person's accumulated acts of consumption of food and weight gain, obesity, or any associated health condition. Subjects to such prohibition:
(1) any action brought by a person other than the person on whose weight gain, obesity, or health condition the action is based; and
(2) any derivative action brought by or on behalf of any person or any representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of that person. Excludes from this prohibition any actions alleging:
(1) a breach of express contract or express warranty provided that the grounds of recovery are unrelated to a person's weight gain, obesity, or related health condition;
(2) a knowing violation of a federal or state statute applicable to the marketing, advertisement, or labeling of food with intent for a person to rely on that violation, where such person relied on that violation, and where such reliance was the proximate cause of injury related to that person's weight gain, obesity, or related health condition; or
(3) a violation brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Federal Trade Commission Act or by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY]
• and 16 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN]
  • Sen. Wayne Allard [R, CO]
  • Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT]
  • Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY]
  • Sen. C. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA]
  • Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS]
  • Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX]
  • Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R, NC]
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC]
  • Sen. Charles Hagel [R, NE]
  • Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK]
  • Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]
  • Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR]
  • Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE]
  • Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
  • Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS]
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Committees

• Senate Judiciary

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.1323

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Bill Status

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
May 07, 2007

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• May 11, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6011-6012)
• May 07, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
• Introduced on May 07, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.2183

Related Issue Areas:

• Law
• Actions and defenses
• Business
• Consumers
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• Damages
• Discovery (Law)
• Food
• Food industry
• Injunctions
• Jurisdiction
• Liability (Law)
• Marketing
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Obesity
• Products liability
• Retail trade
• State and local government
• State courts
• Trade associations

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Blog Coverage

May 24, 2008 Dialing for Votes

People who are committed to voting for me because of Corder's support for S.1323, the sexual orientation bill. (And many of these are former Californians, who know where this takes us.) 3. A couple of people very committed to Corder--to ...

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April 09, 2008 Clayton Cramer Interview

The one that caused me to run against him was his sponsorship of S.1323, which proposed adding "sexual orientation and gender identity" to Idaho's employment discrimination law. I often describe myself as a conservative with libertarian ...

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January 22, 2008 A Bad Idea From My State Senator

Tim Corder has introduced S.1323 in the Idaho State Senate. This bill would add "sexual orientation or gender identity" to the existing Idaho Code 67-5909 which prohibits discrimination in employment. I agree that in the vast majority ...

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