Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011

Bill: 112-s-216
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2011-01-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2011-01-27
text: 
Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or a prison term of up to 10 years for knowingly and intentionally to defraud or mislead, with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury: (1) introducing into interstate commerce any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) adulterating or misbranding any such item; (3) receiving or delivering any such item in interstate commerce; or (4) altering, mutilating, destroying, obliterating, or removing labeling while such item is held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce resulting in such item being adulterated or misbranded.

action_date: 2011-03-31
text: 
Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to impose a fine and/or a prison term of up to 10 years for knowingly and intentionally to defraud or mislead, and with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury: (1) introducing into or receiving or delivering in interstate commerce any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) adulterating or misbranding any such item in interstate commerce; or (3) altering, mutilating, destroying, obliterating, or removing labeling of such an item while it is held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce resulting in such item being adulterated or misbranded.

action_date: 2011-04-14
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on March 31, 2011. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Food Safety Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to impose a fine and/or a prison term of up to 10 years for knowingly and intentionally to defraud or mislead, and with conscious or reckless disregard of a risk of death or serious bodily injury: (1) introducing into or receiving or delivering in interstate commerce any food, drug, device, tobacco product, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) adulterating or misbranding any such item in interstate commerce; or (3) altering, mutilating, destroying, obliterating, or removing labeling of such item while it is held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce resulting in such item being adulterated or misbranded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2011-04-15
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2011-04-14
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2552; text as passed Senate: CR S2552)
action_date: 2011-04-14
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2552; text as passed Senate: CR S2552)
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2011-03-31
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2011-01-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S340)
action_date: 2011-01-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S339-340)
action_date: 2011-01-27
text: Introduced in Senate