[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 108 (Wednesday, July 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4834]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4960. Mr. LEAHY 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, strike lines 8 through 19 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(b) Federal Preemption.--No State or a political 
     subdivision of a State may directly or indirectly establish 
     under any authority or continue in effect as to any food in 
     interstate commerce any requirement relating to the labeling 
     of whether a food (including food served in a restaurant or 
     similar establishment) is genetically engineered (which shall 
     include such other similar terms as determined by the 
     Secretary of Agriculture) or was developed or produced using 
     genetic engineering, including any requirement for claims 
     that a food is or contains an ingredient that was developed 
     or produced using genetic engineering.
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