[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 163 (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S6451]
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SA 4033. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 302, to provide protections for certain sports
medicine professionals who provide certain medical services in a
secondary State; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end, add the following:
DIVISION L--REINFORCING AMERICAN-MADE PRODUCTS ACT OF 2018
SEC. 2001. SHORT TITLE.
This division may be cited as the ``Reinforcing American-
Made Products Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2002. EXCLUSIVITY OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY TO REGULATE
LABELING OF PRODUCTS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES
AND INTRODUCED IN INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN
COMMERCE.
Section 320933 of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 (15 U.S.C. 45a) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ``To the extent''
and inserting the following:
``(a) In General.--To the extent'';
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(b) Effect on State Law.--
``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
provisions of this section shall supersede any provisions of
the law of any State expressly relating to the extent to
which a product is introduced, delivered for introduction,
sold, advertised, or offered for sale in interstate or
foreign commerce with a Made in the U.S.A. or Made in America
label, or the equivalent thereof, in order to represent that
such product was in whole or substantial part of domestic
origin.
``(2) Enforcement.--Nothing in this section shall preclude
the application of the law of any State to the use of a label
not in compliance with subsection (a).''; and
(3) in the third sentence of subsection (a), as designated
by paragraph (1), by striking ``Nothing in this section'' and
inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (b), nothing in
this section''.
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