H.R.6118 - Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012

To amend section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification. view all titles (4)

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  • Short: Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012 as passed senate.
  • Short: Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012 as passed house.
  • Official: To amend section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification. as introduced.
  • Short: Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012 as introduced.

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07/11/12
 
09/19/12
 
11/13/12
 
12/03/12
 

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Michael Grimm

R-NY

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9/19/2012--Passed House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise sanctions for laboratories that intentionall
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9/19/2012--Passed House without amendment. (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise sanctions for laboratories that intentionally refer proficiency testing samples required for certification to another laboratory for analysis by:
(1) giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretion to substitute intermediate sanctions for such violations instead of the two-year prohibition against ownership or operation which would otherwise apply, and
(2) making the one-year certificate revocation for such a laboratory optional rather than mandatory.

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Organizations Supporting H.R.6118

  • American Clinical Laboratory Association

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