[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2053 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2053

   To suspend temporarily the duty on women's sports bras of stretch 
 fabric with textile or polymer-based electrodes knit into or attached 
  to the fabric and that incorporate connectors designed to secure an 
 electronic transmitter that transmits physiological information from 
                the electrodes to a compatible monitor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

  Mr. Carper introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To suspend temporarily the duty on women's sports bras of stretch 
 fabric with textile or polymer-based electrodes knit into or attached 
  to the fabric and that incorporate connectors designed to secure an 
 electronic transmitter that transmits physiological information from 
                the electrodes to a compatible monitor.

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

SECTION 1. WOMEN'S SPORTS BRAS OF STRETCH FABRIC WITH TEXTILE OR 
              POLYMER-BASED ELECTRODES KNIT INTO OR ATTACHED TO THE 
              FABRIC AND THAT INCORPORATE CONNECTORS DESIGNED TO SECURE 
              AN ELECTRONIC TRANSMITTER THAT TRANSMITS PHYSIOLOGICAL 
              INFORMATION FROM THE ELECTRODES TO A COMPATIBLE MONITOR.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 99 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States is amended by inserting in 
numerical sequence the following new heading:


``      9902.01.00       Women's sports      Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/ ''.
                          bras of stretch                                                    31/2011.......
                          fabric with
                          textile or
                          polymer-based
                          electrodes knit
                          into or attached
                          to the fabric and
                          that incorporate
                          connectors
                          designed to
                          secure an
                          electronic
                          transmitter that
                          transmits
                          physiological
                          information from
                          the electrodes to
                          a compatible
                          monitor (provided
                          for subheading
                          6212.10.90)......

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or 
after the 15th day after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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