[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 118 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 118

 To make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate 
 the labeling of products made in the United States and introduced in 
        interstate or foreign commerce, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 12, 2017

  Mr. Lee (for himself, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. King, Mrs. Capito, and Ms. 
   Collins) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to regulate 
 the labeling of products made in the United States and introduced in 
        interstate or foreign commerce, 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 ``Reinforcing American-Made Products 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSIVITY OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY TO REGULATE LABELING OF 
              PRODUCTS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND INTRODUCED IN 
              INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE.

    Section 320933 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 (15 U.S.C. 45a) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``To the extent'' 
        and inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--To the extent'';
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Effect on State Law.--The provisions of this section shall 
supersede any provisions of the law of any State relating to the extent 
to which a product is introduced, delivered for introduction, sold, 
advertised, or offered for sale in interstate or foreign commerce with 
a `Made in the U.S.A.' or `Made in America' label, or the equivalent 
thereof, in order to represent that such product was in whole or 
substantial part of domestic origin.''; and
            (3) in the third sentence of subsection (a), as designated 
        by paragraph (1), by striking ``Nothing in this section'' and 
        inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (b), nothing in 
        this section''.
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