[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 158 (Tuesday, September 14, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REINFORCING AMERICAN-MADE PRODUCTS ACT

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 297 and the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 297) to make exclusive the authority of the 
     Federal Government to regulate the labeling of products made 
     in the United States and introduced in interstate or foreign 
     commerce, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate 
proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SCHUMER. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 297) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                 S. 297

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Reinforcing American-Made 
     Products Act''.

     SEC. 2. 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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