[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2435 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2435

 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with regard to the 
                        Reagan-Udall Foundation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 2015

Mrs. Blackburn 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 with regard to the 
                        Reagan-Udall Foundation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REAGAN-UDALL FOUNDATION FOR THE FOOD AND DRUG 
              ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Board of Directors.--
            (1) Composition and size.--Section 770(d)(1)(C) of the 
        Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(d)(1)(C)) 
        is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii);
                    (B) by inserting after clause (i) the following:
                            ``(ii) Additional members.--The Board, 
                        through amendments to the bylaws of the 
                        Foundation, may provide that the number of 
                        voting members of the Board shall be a number 
                        (to be specified in such amendment) greater 
                        than 14. Any Board positions that are 
                        established by any such amendment shall be 
                        appointed (by majority vote) by the individuals 
                        who, as of the date of such amendment, are 
                        voting members of the Board and persons so 
                        appointed may represent any of the categories 
                        specified in subclauses (I) through (V) of 
                        clause (i), so long as no more than 30 percent 
                        of the total voting members of the Board 
                        (including members whose positions are 
                        established by such amendment) are 
                        representatives of the general pharmaceutical, 
                        device, food, cosmetic, and biotechnology 
                        industries.''; and
                    (C) in clause (iii)(I), as redesignated by 
                subparagraph (A), by striking ``The ex officio members 
                shall ensure'' and inserting ``The ex officio members, 
                acting pursuant to clause (i), and the Board, acting 
                pursuant to clause (ii), shall ensure''.
            (2) Federal employees allowed to serve on board.--Clause 
        (iii)(II) of section 770(d)(1)(C) of the Federal Food, Drug, 
        and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(d)(1)(C)), as redesignated by 
        paragraph (1)(A), is amended by adding at the end the 
        following: ``For purposes of this section, the term `employee 
        of the Federal Government' does not include a `special 
        Government employee', as that term is defined in section 202(a) 
        of title 18, United States Code.''.
            (3) Staggered terms.--Subparagraph (A) of section 770(d)(3) 
        of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 
        379dd(d)(3)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(A) Term.--The term of office of each member of 
                the Board appointed under paragraph (1)(C)(i), and the 
                term of office of any member of the Board whose 
                position is established pursuant to paragraph 
                (1)(C)(ii), shall be 4 years, except that--
                            ``(i) the terms of offices for the members 
                        of the Board initially appointed under 
                        paragraph (1)(C)(i) shall expire on a staggered 
                        basis as determined by the ex officio members; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) the terms of office for the persons 
                        initially appointed to positions established 
                        pursuant to paragraph (1)(C)(ii) may be made to 
                        expire on a staggered basis, as determined by 
                        the individuals who, as of the date of the 
                        amendment establishing such positions, are 
                        members of the Board.''.
    (b) Executive Director Compensation.--Section 770(g)(2) of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(g)(2)) is amended 
by striking ``but shall not be greater than the compensation of the 
Commissioner''.
    (c) Separation of Funds.--Section 770(m) of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(m)) is amended by striking ``are held 
in separate accounts from funds received from entities under subsection 
(i)'' and inserting ``are managed as individual programmatic funds 
under subsection (i), according to best accounting practices''.
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