[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4832-S4833]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4955. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to

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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 12, between lines 2 and 3, insert the following:
       ``(5) Penalties.--
       ``(A) Civil penalties; in general.--Any person who fails to 
     make a disclosure as described in paragraph (1) or who 
     knowingly provides a false statement in the course of an 
     examination or audit under paragraph (3) shall be subject to 
     a civil penalty in an amount of not more than $1,000 per day, 
     per food related to such failure to disclose or such false 
     statement.
       ``(B) Clarifications.--Calculation of the civil penalty 
     under subparagraph (A) shall not be made or multiplied by the 
     number of individual packages of the same food displayed or 
     offered for retail sale. Civil penalties assessed under 
     subparagraph (A) shall accrue and be assessed per each 
     uniquely named, designated, or marketed food.
       ``(C) Citizen suits.--An individual whose interests are 
     adversely affected by a violation described in subparagraph 
     (A) may collect damages in an amount of not more than 
     $100,000 per violation.''.
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