[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 436 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 436

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on 
                            medical devices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2011

    Mr. Paulsen (for himself, Mr. Altmire, Mr. Lee of New York, Mr. 
Gerlach, Mr. Reichert, Mr. Lance, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Rogers of 
  Michigan, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Kline, Mr. Cravaack, Mrs. Bachmann, Mr. 
 Akin, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
Campbell, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Cole, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Dent, Mrs. Ellmers, 
    Mr. Fleming, Mr. Flores, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. 
   Goodlatte, Mr. Guinta, Mr. Harris, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Lankford, Mr. 
Marchant, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Poe of Texas, 
    Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Walsh of 
  Illinois, and Mr. Young of Indiana) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the excise tax on 
                            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 ``Protect Medical Innovation Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MEDICAL DEVICE EXCISE TAX.

    (a) In General.--Section 4191 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is hereby repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Subsection (a) of section 4221 of such Code is amended 
        by striking the last sentence.
            (2) Paragraph (2) of section 6416(b) of such Code is 
        amended by striking the last sentence.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of subchapters for chapter 32 of 
such Code is amended by striking the item relating to subchapter E.
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