H.R.812 - Commonsense Consumption Act of 2009

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. view all titles (2)

All Bill Titles

  • Official: 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. as introduced.
  • Short: Commonsense Consumption Act of 2009 as introduced.

This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.

Bill's Views

  • Today: 2
  • Past Seven Days: 10
  • All-Time: 1,665
 
Introduced
 
House
Passes
 
Senate
Passes
 
President
Signs
 

 
02/02/09
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Official Summary

2/3/2009--Introduced.Commonsense Consumption Act of 2009 - 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 accumulat

Official Summary

2/3/2009--Introduced.Commonsense Consumption Act of 2009 - 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.

...Read the Rest

FEED

Recent News Coverage

Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.

FEED

Recent Blog Coverage

View All (23)  |  View Top Rated

08/29/10
To prevent legislative and regulatory functions from being usurped ...

Sponsored By: Representative Dan Boren, OK(District 2), Democratic 25 Voted Yes 3 Voted No This vote is Winning Vote now Learn More Comments 2/3/2009--Introduced. Commonsense Consumption Act of 2009 - Prohibits new, and requires ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
05/16/10
Ljudi iza zavjese 1 od 3 (ZEITGEIST HR 8/12) | make up

Pretposljednja serija - cjelina Zeitgeista. Preporuka literature: ''The Creature from Jackyll Island'' - ('Kreatura s otoka.

Source: make up
Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate
01/18/10
BO thinks he's president of the world - Patriotic Resistance

Lance is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services He has sponsored the following bills: HR 3779: Homebuyer Tax Credit Fairness Act of 2009 HR 812: Recognizing the significant contributions of the Military Working Dog ...

Add to My Political Notebook Save to Notebook Rate




Users supporting H.R.812 (5) are also:

Supporting Bill Supporting Senator


Opposing Bill Opposing Senator Opposing Representative





Vote on This Bill

100% Users Support Bill

5 in favor / 0 opposed
 

Send Your Rep a Letter

about this bill Support Oppose Tracking
Track with MyOC
Save to Notebook Make A Bill Widget

OpenCongress is a free and open-source project of the Participatory Politics Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to increase civic engagement. The non-profit Sunlight Foundation is the Founding and Primary Supporter of OpenCongress.