[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
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[H.R. 6118 Received in Senate (RDS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6118


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 2012

                                Received

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                                 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''.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 19, 2012.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.