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HR 6118 RDS112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. .R.6118
IN THE SENATE OF
One Hundred Twelfth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE UNITED STATESSeptember 20, 2012
Received
AN ACT
SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twelve
An Act
To amend section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
SEC. 2. SUSPENSION, REVOCATION, AND LIMITATION OF LABORATORY CERTIFICATION.
Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 263a) is amended--
(1) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by inserting ‘, except that no proficiency testing sample shall be referred to another laboratory for analysis as prohibited under subsection (i)(4)’ before the period at the end; and
(2) in subsection (i)--
(A) in paragraph (3), by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the following: ‘, except that if the revocation occurs pursuant to paragraph (4) the Secretary may substitute intermediate sanctions under subsection (h) instead of the 2-year prohibition against ownership or operation which would otherwise apply under this paragraph’; and
(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘shall’ the first place it appears and inserting ‘may’.
PassedSpeaker of the House of Representatives September 19, 2012.Attest:
KAREN L. HAAS,
Clerk.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.6118 as Enrolled Bill Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012
