[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4433-S4434]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3143. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and continuation 
of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture 
through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:
       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 125__. NATIONAL BIOENGINEERED FOOD DISCLOSURE STANDARD.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 291(1)(A) of the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1639(1)(A)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end and inserting ``or'';
       (2) by striking ``modified through in vitro'' and inserting 
     the following: ``modified through--
       ``(i) in vitro''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(ii) any other technique for the process of modification 
     of genetic material, including Clustered Regularly 
     Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and 
     ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi); and''.
       (b) Applicability.--Section 292 of the Agricultural 
     Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1639a) is amended by striking 
     subsection (c) and inserting the following:
       ``(c) Application to Foods.--This subtitle shall apply to 
     any food that--

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       ``(1) is bioengineered; or
       ``(2) contains an ingredient that is bioengineered.''.
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