3.0.0 2193 2020-02-10T17:00:01Z 2020-02-10T17:00:01Z Senate S S 2012-03-15 112 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-03-15T16:54:53Z 2012-03-15 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2012-03-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. 2012-03-15 True B001267 Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] Michael Bennet D CO 2012-03-15 True K000305 Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI] HERBERT KOHL D WI H. 2012-03-15 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2012-03-20 False Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of Health and Human Services Health technology, devices, supplies Product safety and quality Health 00 2012-03-15 Introduced in Senate 2012-07-03T18:46:55Z Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) amend procedures under such Act to expand the postmarket risk identification and analysis system to include and apply to devices in a comparable manner as such system includes and applies to drugs; and (2) ensure that such amended procedures give priority for inclusion in the system to class III and class II devices that are implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining or that pose significant risk to users.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue final regulations establishing a unique device identification system for medical devices by December 31, 2012, and (2) implement the system not later than one year after the final regulations are issued.

]]> Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Food and Drug Administration to include devices in the postmarket risk identification and analysis system, to expedite the implementation of the unique device identification system for medical devices, and for other purposes. Display Title Ensuring Safe Medical Devices for Patients Introduced in Senate 2012-03-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s2193is/xml/BILLS-112s2193is.xml 2012-03-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.