[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 814 Introduced in Senate (IS)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 814

  To include Hepatitis A vaccines in the Vaccine Injury Compensation 
       Program under title XXI of the Public Health Service Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 8, 2003

  Mr. Santorum introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To include Hepatitis A vaccines in the Vaccine Injury Compensation 
       Program under title XXI of the Public Health Service Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REVENUE MEASURE TO APPLY TO HEPATITIS A VACCINE.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (1) of section 4132(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by redesignating subparagraphs (I), 
(J), (K), and (L) as subparagraphs (J), (K), (L), and (M), 
respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph (H) the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(I) Any vaccine against hepatitis A.''
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) Sales, etc.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
        shall apply to sales and uses on or after the first day of the 
        first month which begins more than 4 weeks after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Deliveries.--For purposes of paragraph (1) and section 
        4131 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, in the case of sales 
        on or before the effective date described in such paragraph for 
        which delivery is made after such date, the delivery date shall 
        be considered the sale date.
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