[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4832]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4951. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 4935 proposed by Mr. McConnell (for Mr. Roberts) to the 
bill S. 764, to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College 
Program Act, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       On page 13, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
       ``(c) Exception to Federal Preemption.--Notwithstanding the 
     Federal preemption provisions of subsection (b) and section 
     293(e), a State may continue in effect as to any food in 
     interstate commerce that is the subject of the national 
     bioengineered food disclosure standard under section 293 any 
     requirement relating to the labeling or disclosure of whether 
     a food or seed is bioengieered or genetically engineered or 
     was developed or produced using bioengineering or genetic 
     engineering for a food, including any requirement for claims 
     that a food or seed is or contains an ingredient that was 
     developed or produced using bioengineering or genetic 
     engineering, even if such State requirement is not identical 
     to the mandatory disclosure requirement under the standard 
     under section 293, provided that such State requirement takes 
     effect on or before July 1, 2016.''.
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