[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 132 (Thursday, August 3, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4884-S4885]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 755. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2430, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for 
prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar 
biological products, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie 
on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title IX, insert the following:

     SEC. 906. TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Commissioner of Food and Drugs may not delay the deadline, 
     set forth in the rule entitled ``Deeming Tobacco Products To 
     Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as 
     Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control 
     Act; Restrictions on the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco 
     Products and Required Warning Statements for Tobacco 
     Products'', published May 10, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 28973), for 
     submission of premarket tobacco product applications required 
     for new tobacco products under section 910 of the Federal 
     Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 387j).

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