[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2791 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2791

   To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for 
  establishment of a unique device identification system for medical 
                                devices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2007

 Ms. Hooley (for herself and Mr. Doyle) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for 
  establishment of a unique device identification system for medical 
                                devices.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unique Device Identification System 
for Medical Devices Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. UNIQUE DEVICE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM.

    Section 519 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
360i) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:

                 ``Unique Device Identification System

    ``(f) The Secretary shall promulgate regulations establishing a 
unique device identification system for medical devices requiring the 
labeling of devices to bear a unique identifier.''.
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