[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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H.R. 1256--A bill to protect the public health by providing the Food 
    and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco 
    products; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
    to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period 
    to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
    case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
    jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


By Mr. WAXMAN (for himself, Mr. Platts, Mr. Towns, Mr. Lynch, Mr. 
Pallone, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ackerman, Ms. 
Baldwin, Mr. Barrow, Mr. Berry, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Blumenauer, Mrs. Bono 
Mack, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Braley 
of Iowa, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Carney, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Castle, 
Ms. Castor of Florida, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly of 
Virginia, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Dahlkemper, 
Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Delahunt, Ms. 
DeLauro, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Edwards of Texas, Mr. Ellison, Mrs. Emerson, 
Mr. Engel, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Filner, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. 
Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Hall of New 
York, Ms. Harman, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Himes, Mr. Hinchey, 
Ms. Hirono, Mr. Holt, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Israel, Ms. Jackson-Lee of 
Texas, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Kilroy, Mr. Kind, Mr. 
Kirk, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Lee of 
California, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. 
Loebsack, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Maffei, Mrs. Maloney, Ms. Markey 
of Colorado, Mr. Markey of Massachusetts, Mr. Matheson, Ms. Matsui, 
Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McDermott, Mr. McGovern, 
Mr. McMahon, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Michaud, Mr. George Miller of 
California, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Murphy of 
Connecticut, Mr. Nadler of New York, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
Oberstar, Mr. Olver, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Mr. Reichert, 
Mr. Reyes, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Rush, Mr. 
Ryan of Ohio, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
Serrano, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
Snyder, Mr. Stark, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Van Hollen, 
Ms. Watson, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Welch, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Wu, and Mr. 
Yarmuth), H2923 [3MR]

  Cosponsors added, H3078 [6MR], H3146 [10MR], H3438 [16MR], H3527 
  [17MR], H3642 [18MR], H3706 [19MR], H3749 [23MR], H3835 [24MR], 
  H4027 [25MR], H4064 [26MR]
  Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce (H. Rept. 111-58, 
  part 1) (omitted from the Record of March 26, 2009), H4127 [30MR]
  Reported from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with 
  amendments (H. Rept. 111-58, part 2) (omitted from the Record of 
  March 26, 2009), H4127 [30MR]
  Providing for consideration (H. Res. 307), H4249 [31MR]
  Debated, H4318 [1AP], H6630 [12JN]
  Text, H4318 [1AP]
  Amendments, H4344 [1AP], H6630 [12JN]
  Passed House, H4412 [2AP]
  Message from the House, S4308 [2AP], S6578 [15JN], S6648 [16JN]
  Read the first time, S4308, S4399 [2AP], S4405 [20AP]
  Placed on the calendar, S4441 [20AP]
  Consideration of motion to proceed to consideration, S5887 [21MY], 
  S5918 [2JN], S5994 [3JN]
  Senate invoked cloture on motion to proceed to consideration, S5918 
  [2JN]
  Amendments, S5952, S5953 [2JN], S6051, S6052, S6053, S6054, S6055, 
  S6078, S6101, S6124, S6125, S6126, S6128 [3JN], S6216, S6217, S6218, 
  S6219, S6220, S6226, S6227 [4JN], S6274, S6275, S6278, S6279, S6284, 
  S6285, S6290, S6295, S6298, S6299, S6302, S6303, S6305, S6310, S6315 
  [8JN]
  Debated, S6170 [4JN], S6244 [8JN], S6347 [9JN], S6406 [10JN], S6497 
  [11JN]
  Senate invoked cloture, S6244 [8JN]
  Senate invoked cloture on debate, S6412 [10JN]
  Passed Senate amended, S6501 [11JN]
  Text, S6501 [11JN]
  Message from the Senate, H6585 [11JN]
  House agreed to Senate amendment, H6660 [12JN]
  Examined and signed in the House, H6803 [15JN]
  Examined and signed in the Senate, S6648 [16JN]
  Presented to the President (June 16, 2009), H7082 [19JN]
  Approved [Public Law 111-31] (signed June 22, 2009)