[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2058 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2058

  To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for a 
certain effective date with respect to deemed tobacco products, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2015

   Mr. Cole introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for a 
certain effective date with respect to deemed tobacco products, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``FDA Deeming Authority Clarification 
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. DATE FOR APPLICATION OF FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT TO 
              DEEMED TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

    Section 901(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 387a(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``This chapter shall apply'' and inserting 
        the following:
            ``(1) In general.--This chapter shall apply''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Deemed tobacco products.--For each tobacco product 
        deemed subject to the requirements of the Act pursuant to 
        paragraph (1), each reference in sections 905(j) and 910(a)--
                    ``(A) to `February 15, 2007', shall be considered 
                to be a reference to `the effective date of the 
                regulation under which a tobacco product is deemed 
                subject to the requirements of this Act pursuant to 
                section 901(b)(1)'; and
                    ``(B) to `21 months after the date of enactment of 
                the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act', 
                shall be considered to be a reference to `21 months 
                after such effective date'.''.
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