[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1648. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. 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 so 
     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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