115 HR 5554 IH: Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018
U.S. House of Representatives
2018-04-18
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1.This Act may be cited as the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018
. 2.Table of contents; references in Act (a)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents; references in Act.
Title I—Fees Relating to Animal Drugs
Sec. 101. Short title; finding.
Sec. 102. Definitions.
Sec. 103. Authority to assess and use animal drug fees.
Sec. 104. Reauthorization; reporting requirements.
Sec. 105. Savings clause.
Sec. 106. Effective date.
Sec. 107. Sunset dates.
Title II—Fees Relating to Generic Animal Drugs
Sec. 201. Short title; finding.
Sec. 202. Authority to assess and use generic new animal drug fees.
Sec. 203. Reauthorization; reporting requirements.
Sec. 204. Savings clause.
Sec. 205. Effective date.
Sec. 206. Sunset dates.
Title III—Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 301. Electronic submissions.
Sec. 302. Index of legally marketed unapproved new animal drugs for minor species.
Sec. 303. Misbranded drugs and devices.
(b)Except as otherwise specified, amendments made by this Act to a section or other provision of law are amendments to such section or other provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.).
<enum>I</enum><header>Fees Relating to Animal Drugs</header>
<section id="HB33EB12358B049F29643150AD43F962B"><enum>101.</enum><header>Short title; finding</header>
<subsection id="H18055A5421354C7598FA25EAF10100A7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018</short-title></quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H0C9204490ADB4126BF5DB583059F8100"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Finding</header><text>Congress finds that the fees authorized by the amendments made in this title will be dedicated toward expediting the animal drug development process and the review of new and supplemental animal drug applications and investigational animal drug submissions as set forth in the goals identified for purposes of part 4 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, in the letters from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate as set forth in the Congressional Record.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HACF4585CF5124BAB81B959FDCD9E0EC6"><enum>102.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 739 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-11">21 U.S.C. 379j–11</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H0BA5B7017F314A03B3AF8F9F18C06D91"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HCE4AAAA3D2B0471A90613A3A28A4C8D5"><enum>(1)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H596C664D6D064A61995958FA947B1D49"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The term <term>animal drug application</term> means—</text> <clause id="HF3B3D61B065147289288113A05E36D51" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an application for approval of any new animal drug submitted under section 512(b)(1); or</text>
</clause><clause id="H149E3F22CF084F1894722D7A7E653E6E" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an application for conditional approval of a new animal drug submitted under section 571.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6A3B664A7C8844D089937B10812BC16C" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Such term does not include either a new animal drug application submitted under section 512(b)(2) or a supplemental animal drug application.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5181F4857AB4439BA217B71F65A7F7D0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (8), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9BDA898FAF5845FC949C70D7471388AC" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HED2092E4BEEB4F28AAABD0F9CF9A5FB2"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The activities necessary for implementation of the United States and European Union Good Manufacturing Practice Mutual Inspection Agreement with respect to animal drug products subject to review, including implementation activities prior to and following product approval.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H83D89B4B925B4B229FFBC8C6D6C3BF44"><enum>103.</enum><header>Authority to assess and use animal drug fees</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H51BC1F1B18394F9EBF6AB596CE4DE596"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fee revenue amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 740(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H7D50F4CEF2AA400CB1306191B13B0AE7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HEFE53FE9670A46B6A0C5DA20C358C050"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause id="H7285F2C43E4D4547A76E40D5CFAC662C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2014</quote> and inserting <quote>2019</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H390041BAA7C24D3CAAFBDDD25B994292"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>$23,600,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$30,331,240</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD5A7D75D9D7547E5A975CAA7B915456D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<clause id="H2469A4BBBDE3455D8955FE7AE8403C3E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2015 through 2018</quote> and inserting <quote>2020 through 2023</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="H6B7596799C0B4F54BDB54F0961437060"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>$21,600,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$29,931,240</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H4EE39F29973241B0B756F17D964F1894"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>determined</quote> and inserting <quote>established</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HD649D537AA474194975DAFEAE0F93A7D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual fee setting; adjustments</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="H83BBFCA23240484986704C8C09EA5D70"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header><text>Section 740(c)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(c)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H16ADEA8CDAFB48D1B2A408219006D869"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause commented="no" id="HDE89F1B7FEEC41018432F59473DB0C28"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>For fiscal year 2015</quote> and inserting <quote>(A) For fiscal year 2020</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H6E7D6D89074C4FBE8892AED44AE1AA16"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>multiplying such revenue amounts by</quote> before <quote>an amount</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HB80C9A2C95AD455DB164A0F7953A76E2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6D025EDDBDE14BCAB4F14B9C793A0FEC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking the flush text at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7C2E5E911C0948FD8CE27DB42EFFFDEC"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HEC3499C465F245258DCC37C5072D2D81" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Compounded basis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The adjustment made each fiscal year after fiscal year 2020 under this paragraph shall be applied on a compounded basis to the revenue amount calculated under this paragraph for the most recent previous fiscal year.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCD0654F17E1740E3B4A15504F4A6F6CD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Workload adjustments</header><text>Paragraph (3) of section 740(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(c)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H90DA7E31D30E4CDDA636C730A84FCC33" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HBE58CDEC7B834102A173A1C7FDB2734D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Workload adjustments</header> <subparagraph id="HA0A0DD3475E44297A51FDD31AB42AAFC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For fiscal year 2020 and subsequent fiscal years, after the fee revenue amounts established under subsection (b) are adjusted for inflation in accordance with paragraph (2), the fee revenue amounts shall be further adjusted for such fiscal year to reflect changes in the workload of the Secretary for the process for the review of animal drug applications, subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C). With respect to such adjustment—</text>
<clause id="HFAEFA190A8A7403CAFCF00CC34107697"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such adjustment shall be determined by the Secretary based on a weighted average of the change in the total number of animal drug applications, supplemental animal drug applications for which data with respect to safety or effectiveness are required, manufacturing supplemental animal drug applications, investigational animal drug study submissions, and investigational animal drug protocol submissions submitted to the Secretary; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HB588399A94C24D03A36F7205C0F9895A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register the fees resulting from such adjustment and the supporting methodologies.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE9658ACF9F6045F68F5506608E2A3A3C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reduction of workload-based increase by amount of certain excess collections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of fiscal years 2021 through 2023, if application of the workload adjustment under subparagraph (A) increases the fee revenue amounts otherwise established for the fiscal year under subsection (b), as adjusted for inflation under paragraph (2), such fee revenue increase shall be reduced by the amount of any excess collections, as described in subsection (g)(4), for the second preceding fiscal year, up to the amount of such fee revenue increase.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE08C3CE5771149AAA81C4EFE954B22E0"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Rule of application</header><text>Under no circumstances shall the workload adjustments under this paragraph result in fee revenues for a fiscal year that are less than the fee revenues for that fiscal year established under subsection (b), as adjusted for inflation under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H14C073142F3249CB86CEC2BB0B006B03"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Final year adjustment</header><text>Section 740(c)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HE5158CF3A29E4C1AA8CEB2685E4C9922"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2018</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2023</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H07821EFF0191463BBD131211A3FCB2B4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2019</quote> and inserting <quote>2024</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HAB4832792D8040D28CE3F68ABF68D143"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exemptions from fees</header><text>Section 740(d) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6546B6BD0F364BF3B0ECAFAD9551470B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the subsection heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">; exemptions from fees</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">reduction</header-in-text></quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2403054CC7D149509B4FEC1687E1219F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the heading of paragraph (1) and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Waiver or reduction</header-in-text></quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCEDFD1D3862C45F2AD674EA6BF6B0CE8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4BC1F72397B473181BB9C12F1C7F2C5" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HFFF0D4F434C74215956A956583903585"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Exemptions from fees</header> <subparagraph id="HA09C046D15D0439B89F38F5BEB2413C7"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Certain labeling supplements To add number of approved application</header><text>Fees under this section shall not apply with respect to any person who—</text>
<clause id="H9B322F878D5643A7904B912547A10E68"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not later than September 30, 2023, submits a supplemental animal drug application relating to a new animal drug application approved under section 512, solely to add the new animal drug application number to the labeling of the drug in the manner specified in section 502(w)(3); and</text>
</clause><clause id="HC3D913EF1DB74F91B3763F15A4662C5F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise would be subject to fees under this section solely on the basis of such supplemental application.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H36A36D3AF79A4687B740D388C5DEEC53"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Certain animal drug applications</header><text>Fees under paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any person who is the named applicant or sponsor of an animal drug application, supplemental animal drug application, or investigational animal drug submission if such application or submission involves the intentional genomic alteration of an animal that is intended to produce a drug, device, or biological product subject to fees under section 736, 738, 744B, or 744H.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8095D8E90F494B698A174B47487A3B48"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Crediting and availability of fees</header>
<paragraph id="H3B585A90EBDF4E7EBD3D5C102D6AC72C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>Section 740(g)(3) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(g)(3)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H4EE899BAF20F4373B4BE724200484EAC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2014 through 2018</quote> and inserting <quote>2019 through 2023</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB30B18BC0F964A0E83C78506B2C94629"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>determined</quote> and inserting <quote>established</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8FAE2C27ECED4BA7A7484E825F1FBA5F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>paragraph (4)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (5)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC6451966AF974DA4A79ED337A8999BF0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Excess collections</header><text>Section 740(g) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12(g)</external-xref>) is amended by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H73E6ECD24F934A5AB7F7A5BC3297C61D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Excess collections</header><text>If the sum total of fees collected under this section for a fiscal year exceeds the amount of fees authorized to be appropriated for such year under paragraph (3), the excess collections shall be credited to the appropriations account of the Food and Drug Administration as described in paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEC152F36C4BF407C903AFF5AD3DEC00D"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Recovery of collection shortfalls</header>
<subparagraph id="H67E7C40714414F1CBE3395345B5DA9E1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subparagraph (B)—</text> <clause id="H25F64A5C7D1F40B5ACA010E0E2921E1E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>for fiscal year 2021, the amount of fees otherwise authorized to be collected under this section shall be increased by the amount, if any, by which the amount collected under this section and appropriated for fiscal year 2019 falls below the amount of fees authorized for fiscal year 2019 under paragraph (3);</text>
</clause><clause id="H27DF410A1E4C4FE1BF0F44BF18EDE206"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for fiscal year 2022, the amount of fees otherwise authorized to be collected under this section shall be increased by the amount, if any, by which the amount collected under this section and appropriated for fiscal year 2020 falls below the amount of fees authorized for fiscal year 2020 under paragraph (3); and</text>
</clause><clause id="H1CD11D2626D24FC4B077450EBE0E2B2A"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>for fiscal year 2023, the amount of fees otherwise authorized to be collected under this section shall be increased by the cumulative amount, if any, by which the amount collected under this section and appropriated for fiscal years 2021 and 2022 (including estimated collections for fiscal year 2022) falls below the cumulative amount of fees authorized for such fiscal years under paragraph (3).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H51A0A0EAB7AE422F990DFB5E9FC5A74B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reduction of shortfall-based fee increase by prior year excess collections</header>
<clause id="H011D7BEA25FF4D3CA41E4466D2C763EC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to clause (ii), the Secretary shall, in such manner as the Secretary determines appropriate, reduce any fee increase otherwise applicable for a fiscal year under subparagraph (A) by the amount of any excess collections under this section for preceding fiscal years (after fiscal year 2018).</text>
</clause><clause id="H8FE71469AD8140E3B35F5EC3921372A9"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Workload-based fee accounting</header><text>In applying clause (i), the Secretary shall account for the reduction of workload-based fee revenue increases by excess collections under subsection (c)(3)(B), in such manner as needed to provide that no portion of any excess collections described in clause (i) is applied for purposes of reducing fee increases under both such subsection (c)(3)(B) and this paragraph.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF32247A9BD6545E2A8B4B8C941CE3AB6"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Rule of application</header><text>Under no circumstances shall adjustments under this paragraph result in fee revenues for a fiscal year that are less than the fee revenues for that fiscal year established in subsection (b), as adjusted or otherwise affected under subsection (c).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HA7EED4DC59BA465B906CED8D62388956"><enum>104.</enum><header>Reauthorization; reporting requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 740A (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-13">21 U.S.C. 379j–13</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H2F462A807C41420EA524B425B9C6DC30"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>2013</quote> and inserting <quote>2018</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD8D466F41F374847ABC7CA5B1E9AF08F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2014</quote> each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting <quote>2019</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8FCF53795130425B8BD264728C18E3F8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking <quote>2018</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2023</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H5454DAC75B7C44BE984027ADE1E54A25"><enum>105.</enum><header>Savings clause</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding the amendments made by this title, part 4 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-11">21 U.S.C. 379j–11</external-xref> et seq.), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this title, shall continue to be in effect with respect to animal drug applications and supplemental animal drug applications (as defined in such part as of such day) that on or after October 1, 2013, but before October 1, 2018, were accepted by the Food and Drug Administration for filing with respect to assessing and collecting any fee required by such part for a fiscal year prior to fiscal year 2019.</text>
</section><section id="HDC0CCD3F937446B59233DA7FF55BF7C8"><enum>106.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amendments made by this title shall take effect on October 1, 2018, or the date of the enactment of this Act, whichever is later, except that fees under part 4 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by this title, shall be assessed for animal drug applications and supplemental animal drug applications received on or after October 1, 2018, regardless of the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</section><section id="HBC3084FDB4804F99B9F76B0A1D1A9ECE"><enum>107.</enum><header>Sunset dates</header>
<subsection id="H4C6201C75B934C6F9D0D9174D6935323"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text>Section 740 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-12">21 U.S.C. 379j–12</external-xref>) shall cease to be effective October 1, 2023.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0A22C2A9D7084F158426418A6BD5430B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting requirements</header><text>Section 740A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-13">21 U.S.C. 379j–13</external-xref>) shall cease to be effective January 31, 2024.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0134915BEC0F4301A25FC987EA9A3B1A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Previous sunset provision</header><text>Effective October 1, 2018, subsections (a) and (b) of section 107 of the Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/113/14">Public Law 113–14</external-xref>) are repealed.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Fees Relating to Generic Animal Drugs</header>
<section id="H3E77E3F8C98E47C382836E35FF775ADA"><enum>201.</enum><header>Short title; finding</header>
<subsection id="HC3DA17C9AF424733B8C9C59B8C3007AF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Short title</header><text>This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2018</short-title></quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H82DBD825D1F04AE9A0F32FB9EB3F3782"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Finding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congress finds that the fees authorized by the amendments made in this title will be dedicated toward expediting the generic new animal drug development process and the review of abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs, supplemental abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs, and investigational submissions for generic new animal drugs as set forth in the goals identified for purposes of part 5 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, in the letters from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate as set forth in the Congressional Record.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HCF04854CB18B492DB2434A178CF70A6F"><enum>202.</enum><header>Authority to assess and use generic new animal drug fees</header>
<subsection id="H37B6ABE239B24A238CB123D482B66E10"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fee revenue amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 741 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87F99C8AD3784B69B7A657E5B93D9902" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H4939A49DE4CC4C0C91A062F7EB303D3A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fee revenue amounts</header> <paragraph id="H587779BF827545D683CA40B3AE49964D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subsections (c), (d), (f), and (g), for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, the fees required under subsection (a) shall be established to generate a total revenue amount of $18,336,340.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB09E51A0C49A4E319A9072BF1C98ED90"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Types of fees</header><text>Of the total revenue amount established for a fiscal year under paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph id="H454F050947D14AFD8F0CF5C3AAE0C97E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>25 percent shall be derived from fees under subsection (a)(1) (relating to abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA04A4D8481F143CA8A4DF46A28112531"><enum>(B)</enum><text>37.5 percent shall be derived from fees under subsection (a)(2) (relating to generic new animal drug products); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA85BD4A2B83B4128AE3F95F62C21AAD6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>37.5 percent shall be derived from fees under subsection (a)(3) (relating to generic new animal drug sponsors).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H21FCB8FA8A0646F2805C1DCD58DAD4E8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Annual fee setting; adjustments</header>
<paragraph id="HA1150DEE3EF04BE680E7888717D83D21"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 741(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H3983BD4AF67D4538B1C0AB8CC6605875"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (4) as paragraphs (3) through (5), respectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H22A7420ACFCD4A9E9F3DDCEC48056BD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C0C6DEEE8FE41AC855C46AB9EB52689" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HBDD0544DF2C247A4BFEA148075B048AE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Inflation adjustment</header> <subparagraph id="HC5251F5414B947C997E448AAE9EBF17F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For fiscal year 2020 and subsequent fiscal years, the revenue amounts established under subsection (b) shall be adjusted by the Secretary by notice, published in the Federal Register, for a fiscal year, by multiplying such revenue amounts by an amount equal to the sum of—</text>
<clause id="H31BFCC794E134C15881B5278B85F0042"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one;</text> </clause><clause id="H90E827F232074D0586DA28607D196C16"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the average annual percent change in the cost, per full-time equivalent position of the Food and Drug Administration, of all personnel compensation and benefits paid with respect to such positions for the first three of the preceding 4 fiscal years for which data are available, multiplied by the average proportion of personnel compensation and benefits costs to total Food and Drug Administration costs for the first three of the preceding 4 fiscal years for which data are available; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HDC27582D9A224EF2BAE847C3CFA7D40B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the average annual percent change that occurred in the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (Washington-Baltimore, DC–MD–VA–WV; not seasonally adjusted; all items less food and energy; annual index) for the first three of the preceding 4 years for which data are available multiplied by the average proportion of all costs other than personnel compensation and benefits costs to total Food and Drug Administration costs for the first three of the preceding 4 fiscal years for which data are available.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H077AA67A4BE643A9AF3221E2EF9C0EE5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Compounded basis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The adjustment made each fiscal year after fiscal year 2020 under this paragraph shall be applied on a compounded basis to the revenue amount calculated under this paragraph for the most recent previous fiscal year.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCBF75EE32696492B83D16A7E08DDB098"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Workload adjustments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (3) of section 741(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21(c)</external-xref>), as redesignated, is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HF02FF7DD261B45018E8E854F7458BFCB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Workload adjustments</header>
<subparagraph id="H44A599EA8D8F441A8D8852AD93D1BACF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2020 and subsequent fiscal years, after the fee revenue amounts established under subsection (b) are adjusted for inflation in accordance with paragraph (2), the fee revenue amounts shall be further adjusted for each such fiscal year to reflect changes in the workload of the Secretary for the process for the review of abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs, subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C). With respect to such adjustment—</text>
<clause id="H485CE43BDFF84F1BB1A3FEFE33B1DAF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>this adjustment shall be determined by the Secretary based on a weighted average of the change in the total number of abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs, manufacturing supplemental abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs, investigational generic new animal drug study submissions, and investigational generic new animal drug protocol submissions submitted to the Secretary; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H61EDAE4D5C3C4F55BE73C7667BEF5778"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register the fees resulting from this adjustment and the supporting methodologies.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAC71F79AB6FA4729957B4C194134F82A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reduction of workload-based increase by amount of certain excess collections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of fiscal years 2021 through 2023, if application of the workload adjustment under subparagraph (A) increases the fee revenue amounts otherwise established for the fiscal year under subsection (b), as adjusted for inflation under paragraph (2), such fee revenue increase shall be reduced by the amount of any excess collections, as described in subsection (g)(4), for the second preceding fiscal year, up to the amount of such fee revenue increase.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBFEA9FBD62084D4FB0518ADEE18DB85C"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Rule of application</header><text>Under no circumstances shall workload adjustments under this paragraph result in fee revenues for a fiscal year that are less than the fee revenues for that fiscal year established under subsection (b), as adjusted for inflation under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC3CAB55BDD9E4B1A809653A3003E4825"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Final year adjustment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (4) of section 741(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21(c)</external-xref>), as redesignated, is amended by—</text> <subparagraph id="H605108D6C19F46A2AB01E04A5D9146AE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>striking <quote>2018</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2023</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H34487C1EF0CF4D048D484AC149A26BE9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>striking <quote>2019</quote> and inserting <quote>2024</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC9389A5237D846B182A7A3F5770B3DFB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Fee waiver or reduction; exemption from fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (d) of section 741 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H6F285E7BD8F84CDE887269CF1B155754"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Fee waiver or reduction; exemption from fees</header>
<paragraph id="H175374C9D1584FF7AD516A4057D83D06"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Fee waiver or reduction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall grant a waiver from or a reduction of one or more fees assessed under subsection (a) where the Secretary finds that the generic new animal drug is intended solely to provide for a minor use or minor species indication.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H83CD1D05F1614DB5912B467F54007305"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exemption from fees</header><text>Fees under this section shall not apply with respect to any person who—</text> <subparagraph id="H060439AF1BF249DD8AFBC1D503BF71DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not later than September 30, 2023, submits a supplemental abbreviated application for a generic new animal drug approved under section 512, solely to add the application number to the labeling of the drug in the manner specified in section 502(w)(3); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2E411BD680744FE8B194B4BA648B4B37"><enum>(B)</enum><text>otherwise would be subject to fees under this section solely on the basis of such supplemental abbreviated application.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H79F1D24573BA4952ACCE82ED92B51F16"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Crediting and availability of fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 741(g) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21</external-xref>) is amended by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following paragraphs:</text>
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<paragraph id="H7287D60A33304739AE644A025C098B4E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For each of the fiscal years 2019 through 2023, there is authorized to be appropriated for fees under this section an amount equal to the total revenue amount established under subsection (b) for the fiscal year, as adjusted or otherwise affected under subsection (c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD2B070EF378B442495B0DFCE149A4DAF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Excess collections</header><text>If the sum total of fees collected under this section for a fiscal year exceeds the amount of fees authorized to be appropriated for such year under paragraph (3), the excess collections shall be credited to the appropriations account of the Food and Drug Administration as described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H6C1249B7013A4EFFA4D2F2407AE38F86"><enum>203.</enum><header>Reauthorization; reporting requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 742 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-22">21 U.S.C. 379j–22</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HA4106CD40F514A738952E2D6C678235A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>2013</quote> and inserting <quote>2018</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC7E509E54E254265B50E193C05CFC140"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</quote> and inserting <quote>the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H66C1C1C568604B8D8DFC157087A7A2F3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>2014</quote> each place it appears in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting <quote>2019</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD78AEB76D1C948718EBC57065DB18AA9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking <quote>2018</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2023</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H7617C69538A8443090472250F275462D"><enum>204.</enum><header>Savings clause</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding the amendments made by this title, part 5 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21</external-xref> et seq.), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this title, shall continue to be in effect with respect to abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug and supplemental abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug (as defined in such part as of such day) that on or after October 1, 2013, but before October 1, 2018, were accepted by the Food and Drug Administration for filing with respect to assessing and collecting any fee required by such part for a fiscal year prior to fiscal year 2019.</text>
</section><section id="H840A7F58D4C946929F042E59F1F03BB5"><enum>205.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amendments made by this title shall take effect on October 1, 2018, or the date of the enactment of this Act, whichever is later, except that fees under part 5 of subchapter C of chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by this title, shall be assessed for abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug and supplemental abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug received on or after October 1, 2018, regardless of the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</section><section id="H930210F7CEBF499DBB4FF1F76CE7BE35"><enum>206.</enum><header>Sunset dates</header>
<subsection id="HCA093D47075B4EB798A06AA0D4382D4D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 741 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-21">21 U.S.C. 379j–21</external-xref>) shall cease to be effective October 1, 2023.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H06ED842F4350482F8D7560C7E1CC8E0B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting requirements</header><text>Section 742 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/379j-22">21 U.S.C. 379j–22</external-xref>) shall cease to be effective January 31, 2024.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3C834E07B1EC4C6BBCC71E28E9CFCA96"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Previous sunset provision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective October 1, 2018, subsections (a) and (b) of section 206 of the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/113/14">Public Law 113–14</external-xref>) are repealed.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Miscellaneous Provisions</header>
<section id="HEFAB4280000D48F3BF9759B923A0965B"><enum>301.</enum><header>Electronic submissions</header>
<subsection id="H91FF4FFE69E84997AC5DF70759936F90"><enum>(a)</enum><header>New animal drug applications and abbreviated applications for a generic new animal drug</header><text>Section 512(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/360b">21 U.S.C. 360b(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5821CDDF30A41629D3A20DEE00841EA" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H415F8BFB182C43A1BF0C0BE98306DC54" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Beginning on October 1, 2018, all applications or submissions pursuant to this subsection shall be submitted by electronic means in such format as the Secretary may require.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H5D02D273ED824196BF816BAD4818ABCE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conditional approval of new animal drugs for minor use and minor species</header><text>Section 571(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/360ccc">21 U.S.C. 360ccc(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF169E385E7804B9498F7B91996142506" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H468791DA7F0B433B85B7D7F81552CEB6" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Beginning on October 1, 2018, all applications or submissions pursuant to this subsection shall be submitted by electronic means in such format as the Secretary may require.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H6491493D9082435A98E89ABF338BA4C9"><enum>302.</enum><header>Index of legally marketed unapproved new animal drugs for minor species</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Effective on October 1, 2018, section 572(h) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/360ccc-1">21 U.S.C. 360ccc–1(h)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HD5BC955B0E3E47A285BD7F7FC06FB851"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H392D1BB80F4C4B00A36C1347866957D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text><quote>LEGAL STATUS—In order to be legally marketed, a new animal drug intended for a minor species must be Approved, Conditionally Approved, or Indexed by the Food and Drug Administration. THIS PRODUCT IS INDEXED—MIF.</quote> (followed by the applicable minor species index file number and a period) <quote>Extra-label use is prohibited.</quote>;</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF50F65021B1143E2810CAD40A33B84CF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>other animals</quote> and inserting <quote>food-producing animals</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H21FB2AD724C846A081DB6DB62EDC2A4B"><enum>303.</enum><header>Misbranded drugs and devices</header> <subsection id="H8CBBBCFFDD1141A1B6A0C9C20A9D9B55"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 502(w) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/352">21 U.S.C. 352(w)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5CBA7F74A66844F78E27EE001C473B68"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (1), by striking <quote>; or</quote> and inserting <quote>;</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H29EBA39835FF4A808CF30602F1A281BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (2), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70EE987EA01F4299B8F1C86740CD1B8F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H204DBA7131794F9C995EAAD3BB8DBB07" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H36CAE24A9D4B4B27977CD26DF21FC1CE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>for which an application has been approved under section 512 and the labeling of such drug does not include the application number in the format: <quote>Approved by FDA under (A)NADA # xxx–xxx</quote>, except that this subparagraph shall not apply to representative labeling required under section 514.1(b)(3)(v)(b) of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation) for animal feed bearing or containing a new animal drug.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H60A472527F8B42D68C4B80E31F146146"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Section 502(w)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by subsection (a), shall apply beginning on September 30, 2023.</text>
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