[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3063 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3063

To suspend temporarily the duty on knit garments 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

                              May 9, 2012

   Mr. Wyden 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 knit garments 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. KNIT GARMENTS 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      Knit garments of    Free         No change        No change        On or before 12/  ''.
                        stretch fabric                                                     31/2015.......
                        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 in subheading
                        6110.30.30)......

    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
with respect 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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