[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 17 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 17

 To repeal the job-killing tax on medical devices to ensure continued 
  access to life-saving medical devices for patients and maintain the 
    standing of United States as the world leader in medical device 
                              innovation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 5), 2011

     Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Burr, Mr. Coburn, and Mr. Cornyn) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                          Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To repeal the job-killing tax on medical devices to ensure continued 
  access to life-saving medical devices for patients and maintain the 
    standing of United States as the world leader in medical device 
                              innovation.

    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 ``Medical Device Access and Innovation 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MEDICAL DEVICE EXCISE TAX.

    Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 1405 of the Health Care 
and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and the amendments made 
thereby, are hereby repealed; and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
shall be applied as if such section and amendments had never been 
enacted.
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