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[H.R. 6118 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.6118

                      One Hundred Twelfth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twelve


                                 An Act


 
 To amend section 353 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
   suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification.

    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 ``Taking Essential Steps for Testing 
Act of 2012''.
SEC. 2. SUSPENSION, REVOCATION, AND LIMITATION OF LABORATORY 
CERTIFICATION.
    Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 263a) is 
amended--
        (1) in subsection (d)(1)(E), by inserting ``, except that no 
    proficiency testing sample shall be referred to another laboratory 
    for analysis as prohibited under subsection (i)(4)'' before the 
    period at the end; and
        (2) in subsection (i)--
            (A) in paragraph (3), by inserting before the period at the 
        end of the first sentence the following: ``, except that if the 
        revocation occurs pursuant to paragraph (4) the Secretary may 
        substitute intermediate sanctions under subsection (h) instead 
        of the 2-year prohibition against ownership or operation which 
        would otherwise apply under this paragraph''; and
            (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``shall'' the first place 
        it appears and inserting ``may''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.